Duties of Road Users After a Traffic Accident

In the event of a traffic accident, every driver or other road user involved must:
219.1. stop immediately, without creating additional danger to traffic, and mark the scene of the accident in the manner established in paragraph 91.2 and paragraph 92 of the Rules;
219.2. as far as possible, take all necessary measures to ensure safe traffic at the scene of the accident, and in cases where the police are called to the scene of the accident, not allow (insofar as this does not endanger traffic) the circumstances of the accident to change, and preserve the traces of the accident;
219.3. present a valid document confirming their identity or a valid driver's license, and the information necessary to identify the insurance company that has insured the civil liability of the vehicle holder, if requested by other road users involved in the accident;
219.4. if a person was killed or injured in the accident, report the accident to the police and remain at the scene of the accident or, after reporting to the police, return to the scene of the accident and wait until the police arrive, except where the police have allowed leaving the scene of the accident, or first aid must be provided to an injured person or themselves;
219.5. take all necessary measures to provide first medical aid to the injured, call an ambulance, and if it is impossible to call an ambulance or transport the injured to a healthcare institution by other transport, take them to the nearest healthcare institution in their own vehicle, except where doing so would endanger the life or health of the injured.

91.2. Hazard warning signals on a vehicle, if installed, must be switched on in the event of a traffic accident.

• 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.