You have participated in a car accident with casualties. Are you allowed to undertake actions which might hinder establishing the course of the accident?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the photo you can see the aftermath of an accident on a road among trees: a passenger car has crashed into a roadside ditch, and a lorry is lying on its side across the roadway. If you took part in an accident in which people were injured, you must not do anything that could make it harder to establish how the accident happened. The answer is: no.
The Road Traffic Act requires a driver involved in an accident in which someone was killed or injured to help the victims, call the ambulance service and the Police, not to do anything that could make it harder to establish how the accident happened, and to stay at the scene. So it is forbidden to move vehicles, clear away debris, erase skid marks or change the position of bodies and objects - unless this is necessary to save a life. The Police and experts reconstruct the course of events precisely on the basis of these traces, and changing them may be treated as obstructing the proceedings.
Legal basis: Art. 44 para. 2 point 1-3 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)