Collision Investigation Manual

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Cards In This Set

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CHP Responsibility-

The CHP SHALL document the following motor vehicle collisions...?
All TCs on freeways.
all TCs on streets/highways in unincorporated areas.
All TCs resulting in Injury/death/20002 vc/23152 vc on public, private property, unincorporated area. Not on Military reservations/national parkor national monuments.
School Bus collisions regardless of the dollar value of the damage.
All TCs and non traffic collisions occuring on State property.
All Bicycle collisions on a highway within Department responsibility
All collisions motor vehicle/bicycle being used on Department business within city limits
CHP objective is to ensure all CHP officers and sergeants...?
Document collisions according to the Collision Investigation Manual
Area Commander SHALL ensure...?
Sufficent levels of review exist, completed documents are high quality professional produts
Area Commanders SHALL institute procedures for the timely submission of collision investigations/reports. Emphasizing the need to...?
Prepare, review and approve thiese documents within the 8 working day completion time frame.
Definitions

Fatal injury-
Death as a result of injuries sustained in a collision or an injury resulting in death within...?
30 days of the collision. Fetus is at least 20 weeks gestation
In transport- the state or condition of a...?
Vehicle when it is in use primarily for moving persons or property from one place to another and is considered in transport when in the roadway wheter moving, stalled stopped disabled or abandoned
Late Reported TC- Fatal or injury collision where...?
The involved vehicles and parties are no longer at the scene and a report is requested at a location away from the collision scene. Fatals investo, injury report format and may be reported up to one year
Legal intervention- Injury or damage caused by...?
Enforecement intervention using a motor vehicle. If the intervention causes damage or injury that occurs beyond the original intention then those acts are considered accidental and are a motor vehcile collision.
CHP 418/418A (Crash Card) SHALL be made available by officers to...?
Notify all parties of interest, at the collision scene, of the availability of a Traffic Collision Report. printed in seven languages
CHP 422-an officer should prepare and attach a CHP 422 if...?
State property was damaged/private property was damaged
Retention of Traffic Collision reports-

CHP commanders SHALL maintain a file of all original TCs prepared in their juristictions for...?
48 months rotating, unless by court order or reports are felony Hit-and-run involving a fatality. H&R fatals are retained indefinately.
Reports prepared by MAIT have a...?
10-year retention unless other arrangements have been made by the appropriate Division Commander.
State highway related, at times CalTrans may be named in a civil suit resulting from TCs. these TCs may be...?
Rewuested by caltrans along with all photos, evidence etc... Thos investigations should be flagged so they a re not routinely purged
When a TC has been staged, forward a copy of the report to...?
California Dept of Insurance-Fraud division.
When MAIT completes a full investigation, the report that is submitted to Information Management Division, Support Services Section, Productions Controls unit, SHALL begin with...?
The face page of the 555. No title page, investigators list ot table of contents