🆘 1. Duty to help others
If you are involved in or witness an accident, you are required to:
- 👨⚕️ Help the victims or call for help.
- ⚠️ Reduce risks and cooperate with the authorities.
Avoid moving evidence if there are fatalities or seriously injured persons, unless safety requires it.
🚫 Bystanders are not obliged to intervene if:
- The authorities are already present.
- It is clear that no further help is needed.
❤️ 2. The importance of rendering aid
Helping saves lives and is an ethical duty. Failing to do so can be a crime under the Criminal Code:
- ❌ Not rendering aid when you can do so without risk.
- ❌ Not calling for help if you cannot provide assistance yourself.
- ❌ Leaving the scene after causing an accident with victims.
🔒 Crime of leaving the scene of an accident: imprisonment from 6 months to 4 years + driving license suspension from 1 to 4 years.
🛟 3. PAS response: Protect – Alert – Help
🛑 3.1 Protect
- 🚘 Stop your vehicle in a safe area.
- 🦺 Put on a high-visibility vest before getting out.
- 🚧 Mark the scene: hazard lights, warning triangles, position/marker lights.
- 🔥 Avoid ignition sources if there are fuel leaks or fire risk.
- 🛑 Do not move the injured unless it’s for their safety.
- ⛑️ Do not remove a helmet unless strictly necessary and you know how to do it.
📞 3.2 Alert
📱 Call 112 (free, even without coverage or without a PIN).
🔊 Provide this information:
- 📍 Exact location: road, km marker, municipality.
- 👥 Number of victims and severity.
- 🚒 Imminent risks: fires, explosions, trapped persons.
- 🙋 Your name, ID, and phone number.
Stay at the scene unless you are authorized to leave or must go to seek help. 🚔
🚑 3.3 Help
Provide appropriate aid without rushing. Set priorities:
- 👀 Assess the condition of the injured.
- 🗣️ Check responsiveness: speak loudly or apply a gentle stimulus.
- 💨 If unresponsive, apply the ABC method:
- A: Airway — open the airway (head-tilt/chin-lift).
- B: Breathing — look, listen, and feel.
- C: Circulation — check pulse and control bleeding.
✅ Other recommendations:
- 👔 Loosen clothing around the neck or chest.
- 🧣 Keep them covered, even in summer.
- 🥤 Do not give food, drinks, or medication.
- 🚶♂️ Do not let injured persons walk.
⚖️ 4. Legal summary
| ❗ Offense | 📋 Consequence |
|---|---|
| Failing to assist a victim when able to do so | Crime of failure to render aid |
| Not calling for help if you cannot assist | Criminal offense |
| Leaving the scene after causing an accident with victims | Imprisonment 6 months–4 years + license suspension |
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