After notifying the police, IT IS NOT possible to change the position of the vehicle in all situations. If as a result of the accident the death or the harming of the bodily integrity or the health of a person occurred IT IS NOT possible to change the position of the vehicle, even if you notified the police, in this situation you are obliged to notify the police immediately and to call the national single number for emergency calls 112, to not modify or erase the traces of the accident and to not leave the scene of the act.
However, if the accident resulted in only the damaging of the vehicles and/or other material damages (without victims), the position of the vehicle can be changed, and the notifying of the police will be done at the police unit competent in the area where the accident occurred within at most 24 hours from the occurrence of the event.
If you were involved in a traffic accident as a result of which the death or the harming of the bodily integrity or the health of a person occurred you are obliged to notify the police immediately and to call the national single number for emergency calls 112, to not modify or erase the traces of the accident and to not leave the scene of the act. Therefore, in the case of answer A, whether or not you give first aid to the victims, the position of the vehicle cannot be changed.
The driver of a vehicle involved in a traffic accident as a result of which only the damaging of the vehicles and/or other material damages occurred (without victims), is obliged to remove immediately the vehicle outside the carriageway or, if the condition of the vehicle does not allow this, to move it as close as possible to the curb or shoulder, signalling its presence and to appear at the police unit competent in the area where the accident occurred within at most 24 hours from the occurrence of the event for the preparation of the finding documents.
To this obligation to appear at the police unit competent in the area where the accident occurred within at most 24 hours from the occurrence of the event there are also exceptions:
We recommend you to also consult the articles from the updated road legislation found slightly below.
The correct answer is: C
(1) The driver of a vehicle involved in a traffic accident as a result of which the death or the harming of the bodily integrity or the health of a person occurred is obliged to take measures for the immediate notifying of the police, to not modify or erase the traces of the accident and to not leave the scene of the act.
(2) Any person who is involved or has knowledge of the occurrence of a traffic accident as a result of which the death or the harming of the bodily integrity or the health of one or more persons occurred, as well as in the situation in which a vehicle transporting dangerous goods is involved in the event is obliged to notify immediately the police and to call the national single number for emergency calls 112, existing in the telephone networks in Romania.
(3) It is prohibited to any person to change the position of the vehicle involved in a traffic accident as a result of which the death or the harming of the bodily integrity or the health of one or more persons occurred, to modify the state of the place or to erase the traces of the accident without the approval of the police investigating the accident.
(3) Leaving the place of the accident is not an offence when:
b) the driver of the vehicle, in the absence of other means of transport, transports himself the injured persons to the nearest medical unit able to provide the necessary medical assistance and at which he declared the personal identification data and the registration or recording number of the driven vehicle, recorded in a special register, if he returns immediately to the place of the accident;
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