Duties of Road Users After a Traffic Accident
This page presents the official Lithuanian Road Traffic Rules (KET) on the topic of "duties after a traffic accident", valid throughout the Republic of Lithuania under the 2026 rules. Understanding these provisions is essential for passing the theory exam at Regitra and for participating safely in traffic. Each provision below links to the official consolidated KET.
🎥 Video explanation
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📚 Detailed rules
If the hazard warning signals are absent or out of order, or if forced to stop in a place where the stopped vehicle would be seen by other road users at a distance of less than 100 m, the driver of a motor vehicle (except a moped or motorcycle without a trailer), tractor or self-propelled machine must immediately set up an emergency stop sign on that side of the carriageway, against the direction of vehicle traffic: in built-up areas – at a distance of no less than 25 m, and outside built-up areas – at a distance of no less than 50 m from the stopped vehicle.
If no person was killed or injured in the accident, and the road users involved agree on the circumstances of the accident and do not call the police to the scene, the road users involved must draw a diagram of the accident in the traffic accident declaration, describe the circumstances of the accident, and give it to all road users involved in the accident to sign. If none of the road users involved in the accident has a traffic accident declaration, the circumstances of the accident may be described and the diagram of the accident may be drawn on a clean sheet of paper, in which the road users involved in the accident, the vehicles, the witnesses of the accident are indicated, information is provided, and the circumstances of the accident are confirmed by the signatures of the road users involved in the accident. If there is no agreement on the circumstances of the accident, the road users involved in the accident shall call the police to the scene.
Road users involved in a traffic accident must, immediately after the accident, refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages, medicines, narcotics or other intoxicating substances until intoxication or the influence of narcotic, psychotropic or other psychoactive substances has been checked, or until such a check has been refused.
If only material damage was caused by the accident and the injured person is not present at the scene of the accident, the road user involved in the accident must immediately notify the injured person of the accident, and where this is not possible – the police.