Do this when involved in an accident

But what do you do now?

EMPD spokesperson Chief Supt Wilfred Kgasago, said a driver who is involved in or contributes to an accident in which any person is killed or injured, suffers damage in respect of any property, including a vehicle or animal, should do the following:

•  Immediately stop the vehicle and report the accident telephonically to the emergency numbers 011 458 0911, 10117 or mobile emergency 112. More often than not, tow-truckers and other concerned road users on the scene will report the accident to summon an officer to record details of the accident
•  Ascertain the nature and extent of any injury sustained by a person. If a person is injured, render such assistance to the injured as he or she is capable of rendering
•  Ascertain the nature and extent of any damage sustained to property
•  If required so by any person having reasonable grounds for so requiring, give his or her name and address, the name of the owner of the vehicle driven by him or her and, in case of a motor vehicle, the licence number thereof
•  If he or she has not already reported the accident to a police or traffic officer at the accident scene, and unless he or she is incapable of doing so by reason of injuries sustained by him or her in the accident, the person/s involved in the accident should report it to their nearest police station as soon as it is reasonably practicable
•  In a case where a person is killed or injured, within 24 hours after the occurrence of such accident, or in any other case on the first working day after the occurrence of such accident, report the accident to any police officer at a police station or at any office set aside by a competent authority for use by a traffic officer, and there produce his or her driving licence, his or her identity number and motor vehicle licence or registration number
•  Do not, except on the instructions of or when administered by a medical practitioner in the case of injury or shock, take any intoxicating liquor or drug having a narcotic effect unless he or she has complied with the requirement to provide his/her driving licence, ID document where it is his or her duty to do so, and has been examined by a medical practitioner if such examination is required by a traffic officer
•  No person shall remove any vehicle involved in an accident in which another person is killed or injured from the position in which it came to rest, until such removal has been authorised by a traffic officer, except when such accident causes complete obstruction of the roadway of a public road, in which event the vehicle involved may, without such authority and after its position has been clearly marked on the surface of the roadway by the person moving it, be moved sufficiently to allow the passage of traffic
•  In any prosecution for a contravention of any provision of this section it shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the accused was aware of the fact that the accident had occurred, and that he or she did not report the accident or furnish the information as required
•  Parties involved in an accident may not conduct themselves on an accident scene in such a fashion as to cause a secondary accident