For all accidents
- Stop immediately
- Find out if anyone is injured. How badly?
- Establish what damage was caused
- If no-one is hurt, move the vehicles if they're causing an obstruction
- Use emergency triangles if necessary
- Exchange as much information as possible:
- Name/address/ID number of all drivers involved
- Name/address/ID number of the owners of all vehicles involved
- Make/model/colour/registration number of all vehicles involved
- Details of insurance companies of all vehicles involved
- If there were any witnesses, take their details too
- Go to a police station within 24 hours with your licence to report the accident (unless the police were at the scene)
- Don't drink/take drugs before reporting the accident
If someone was injured or killed in an urban area
- Call the police immediately
- Call an ambulance if necessary
- Help injured people
- Don't move the vehicles unless a traffic officer tells you to, or unless they're completely obstructing traffic, and only after marking their positions clearly on the road. Move them just enough to let traffic pass.
- Vehicles can't be removed from the scene without permission from the driver, owner or an authorised person