What is the most relevant information for paramedics when indicating the location of the road accident?
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Correct answer
A. Name of street and house number or name of road and the name of the nearest town, kilometre marker.
Explanation
In the photo you can see a car whose front has hit a tree by the street - a crushed bonnet, scattered fragments. The most important information for the emergency services that identifies the place of the accident is the street name and the building number or the road number, the name of the nearest town and the kilometre marker post - answer A. The caller's phone number alone (B) or the name of the town alone (C) will not let the ambulance find the place.
The Road Traffic Act requires a person involved in an accident with injured people to call the emergency medical services and the police. When you call 112, you first say where you are - the more exactly, the faster help will arrive: in a town the street and building number or the junction, outside a town the road number, the direction of travel, the nearest town and the number from the kilometre marker post by the road; you can also read the coordinates from the satnav or your phone. Then you describe what happened, how many people are injured and in what condition, and you do not hang up until the dispatcher says that they have everything.
Legal basis: Art. 44 para. 2 point 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); Art. 4 para. 1 of the State Emergency Medical Services Act