Legal advice in the event of an accident

If you are, God forbid, involved in a road traffic accident (RTA), not to become guilty, if you are innocent and did not aggravate his guilt, if the accident occurred by your fault, lawyers are advised to always do the following: Stop the car, turn on hazard warning lights. Place the warning triangle, to avoid another accident. Call an ambulance if the victims. Call us at number 02 and report the accident and then wait for the traffic police. Provide first aid to seriously injured, if any. Call your insurance agent. All vehicles are better not to move before the arrival of inspectors, traffic police. Move the cars are allowed only if they hinder traffic, but it is necessary to draw up and sign an accident scheme. This would require to make all the measurements and put them on paper. Related to the accident it is better not to move objects, including fragments of the headlights. Interviewing witnesses and witnesses an accident, write down their contact info. If the accident had no serious consequences and victims, then the traffic police should make all measurements and draw up a scheme of road accident. We recommend you check the correctness of measurements. After this, a protocol on administrative violation, which consists of a circuit accident, descriptions of technical damage to vehicles (TC) and eyewitness accounts. Copy of the report is handed party found to have violated at will as the copy is given to the victim (Article 236 Part 1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation). If the result of the accident has affected or recorded death flawed product or substance that was found in the car, prepared the following documents: a statement about the accident, the report of survey and inspection of vehicles, medical instrument of state driver's explanation of the drivers, the testimony of all witnesses and participants of the accident. These documents are prepared on the spot, in the presence of the victim's driver, who has the right to make observations to check the correctness of filling all the documents and indicate the loss of important details of the accident. If an accident not your fault, it is recommended to make copies of all documents, it will help in the search for the perpetrator, for example, to send him an invitation to assess the material damage.