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Traffic patrol service worker informs standby unit of combat subdivision (agency of internal affairs) about every accident including the cases when it happens outside his post or patrolling course and then acts according to the received instructions.
While receiving a message about accident Traffic Patrol Service worker must attentively listen to a declarant and register:
a) surname, name, address, telephone number of a declarant;
b) time, place, type and circumstances of accident;
c) information about injured;
d) information about first aid given to injured;
e) what medical institutions were the injured directed to and by whom;
f) type, mark colour and state registration signs of transport means which were used for transportation of injured;
g) information about transport means accessorial to this accident.
Having arrived to accident location where there are injured, Traffic Patrol Service worker does the following actions before investigative task force comes:
- determines the number of injured; evaluates their condition severity; calls Emergency; before its arrival or if it's impossible to call Emergency gives firs aid and transports the injured to medical institutions; finds out surnames, names, addresses, job place of injured.
- reveals drivers and transport means which took part in accident and other persons accessorial to the accident, removes driving license from the participants of accident.
- provides the presence of above mentioned persons before investigative task force's arrival;
- reveals the witnesses of the accident and writes down information about them.
- takes measures to save and fix material evidences, traces, property and other objects having to do with accidents.
- reports information about persons and witnesses accessorial to the accident to the chief of investigative task force (prosecutor, investigator, employee making inquiry), gives him material evidences and hereafter acts according to his directions.
- if necessary organizes traffic by-pass. If it's impossible he fixes the position of transport means, traces of accident and other objects having to do with the accident in presence of 2 witnesses and participants of the accident, after that he takes measures to restart traffic.
- if driver in transport means disappeared from accident location finds out his possible direction, make, type, state registration sign, colour and also special marks of transport means and driver.
Traffic patrol service worker immediately reports information received at inspection of accident location and witnesses' inquiry about disappeared transport means and driver to ^standby of combat subdivision or agency of internal affairs, after he acts according to their directions.
While filling out the materials of accident with transport means, in which there are persons using exemptions and privileges (if they don't need medical aid) Traffic patrol service worker offers driver to be present at filling out the materials of this accident; if a driver or someone else of the passengers doesn't want to be present at filling out the materials he writes down the necessary information about the participants of accident and lets them go. In such cases a reason of driver's absence is noted in record and it is signed by the originator of record and two witnesses.
Filling out the materials about traffic rules violations, caused damage to transport means, cargoes, roads, road constructions or other property and caused only material damage is realized, by the order of standby, by Traffic Patrol Service worker independently according to established in agency of internal affairs, execution order for cases about administrative violations and other norms acting in the sphere of traffic.
Having arrived to accident location with transport means transporting dangerous cargoes or to its forced stop, Traffic Patrol Service worker must:
- control the accuracy of accident location marking or forced stop marking by the ways provided in item 7 of Russian Federation Traffic Rules and sub-item 5.1.11 of Rules of dangerous cargoes transportation by automobile transport
- inform standby unit of combat subdivision about time and place of accident, its reasons and consequences ( technical defect of transport means, defects in cargo packing, caused its leakage), number of injured and sort of injuries, name of dangerous cargoes, its quantity and then act according to standby directions.
- assist in elimination of causes and sequences of transport forced stop.
- if it's impossible to find out dangerous features-of transported cargoes shut off traffic at road for the distance not less than 300 m from accident and not let strangers reach accident location.
- report the changes of situation at accident location to standby unit of combat subdivision.