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Police & ForensicsCare for the injured at a crash
You are the first officer at a crash with injured people. Before looking at the vehicles you protect the scene, find every injured person, give them first aid and call fire and EMS, and you keep them safe from fire and traffic. It is the care of the injured in the Albany Police Department (New York) general order on traffic collision investigations.
Free to startScenarios
- A crash with injured people and no other hazard.
- A crash with spilled gasoline or live sparking wires and an injured person who cannot leave the area.
- A crash with major traffic congestion.
- A crash with a serious physical injury.
The steps
- Go to the scene without delay.
- Position the patrol car with its emergency equipment to protect the scene and the injured.
- Identify every injured person and care for them.
- Request fire and EMS as needed.
- With major congestion, assess the injured first and only then the traffic.
- If there is fire or a great potential for fire, help the injured person who cannot leave the hazardous area when it is safe, and evacuate everyone else from the immediate area.
- In a fatal or serious injury crash, render first aid as needed and then secure the scene and the witnesses.
- In a serious injury crash, the shift supervisor responds and makes the notifications for assistance.
To pass
- New York law requires police to investigate and report every crash with a death or personal injury reported within five days.
- A crash with an injury always gets a thorough investigation and the mandatory police crash report.
- When a commercial truck over 10,000 pounds, a bus for nine or more people or a placarded vehicle is involved and someone is transported for immediate medical treatment, the truck and bus supplemental report MV-104S is also completed.
Official source
Albany Police Department · General Order 3.4.10
General Order 3.4.10: Traffic Collision Investigations
The City of Albany publishes its police general order on traffic collision investigations free: the scene steps, the reports and who reviews them.
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