Unfortunately, fatal accidents often occur in our time. Few people realize that a car is a vehicle of increased danger. And pedestrians do not realize that the road is a place where something can happen at any second if you are careless. The death of people is the most terrible consequence of inattention and irresponsibility.
First steps in an accident
What should you do first if a fatal accident occurs? This must be known to all people. Since any person will have to act if the driver or another participant in a particular accident died. The first step is to call an ambulance. If the driver is alive and able to move, he is obliged to help the injured. Only then you need to contact the police. If you do not comply with this legislative norm, you can provoke a re-qualification of the act. Then what happened will be characterized not as a fatal accident, but as a real criminal inaction. By the way, in no case should you leave the scene. Even if there are no injuries. Leaving the scene of an accident entails administrative liability, may be seized. Or at least they will take away the rights. But when the driver leaves the car in the place where people died from the collision, they will search for him as a criminal, and consider the case in court. Punishment threatens appropriate.
Accountability
Fatal accidents imply punishment for the driver. However, criminal liability arises only if the victim suffered severe or moderate damage as a result of what happened. And of course, when someone failed to survive. But! At the scene of the accident, it is far from always possible to say that there are victims with various injuries. Doctors recorded cases when the initial examination showed, in principle, the normal condition of the victim. But the next day he went to the next world. In such situations, they begin to establish a connection between the accident and death. And by the way, there are cases when those who died from the wheels of a car turned out to be dead not from an accident. And from a heart attack. Practice knows many such cases when a person with a very weak heart was so scared of a blow from a machine that cut him, that he immediately died. Although the injury was minor. And it seems in this case that a fatal accident occurred. An article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in this situation may not extend its effect to the culprit if the forensic medical examination proves that the victim left the other world not because of the collision.
Punishment
And now about what awaits the driver, through whose fault an accident happened with a fatal outcome. An article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (judicial practice knows many cases examined under it) stipulates that all aggravating and mitigating circumstances should be taken into account. Then it will turn out to make the right decision. So, article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation establishes a penalty of four years of forced labor for the death of one person. 5 years imprisonment as an alternative, the court makes a choice depending on the circumstances. Plus, deprivation of rights for three years (maximum). If the motorist was drunk, the term is extended to seven years. If two or more people have gone into the other world, the court shall appoint either work (5 years) or a conclusion (up to seven years). But this is not the whole list of what threatens the driver for a fatal accident.The punishment for the death of two or more people while the motorist is drunk is the worst. The minimum term of work is five years, and they can deprive a person of their liberty for nine.
What you need to know
Naturally, there will be no punishment if the perpetrator of the accident himself died in an accident. It is also worth knowing that you can avoid the deadline if you can achieve reconciliation with the victims. That is, if you agree with the family of a person who died in an accident. Usually the culprit tries to compensate for the damage. Then, after an official statement by relatives, he will be able to avoid even criminal liability. But if an agreement does not work out, then at least he faces a criminal record. The sentence will be directly determined by the court. It is advisable to hire a good lawyer, as it is easier to deal with cases involving fatal accidents. Often, the punishment is more than sparing.
