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GPSTC Accident Reporting Questions and Answers 2024
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GPSTC Accident Reporting"an un-stabilized situation which includes at least one harmful event." - answer Accident
a road vehicle accident in which (1) the un-stabilized situation originates on a trafficway
or (2) a harmful event occurs on a trafficway. - answer Traffic accident
one that contributes to the accident such as excessive speed, failure to yield the right-
of-way, following too closely, etc. This form of violation is often the operational factor
that contributed to an accident, especially if the violation is a moving violation. - answer
Contributory traffic violation
one that did not contribute to the accident, such as driving without a license or
registration - answer on-contributory traffic violation
non-accident-related violation, such as the transportation of stolen merchandise, stolen
car, etc. - answerNon-traffic violation
refers to "a motor vehicle accident that occurs on a trafficway or that occurs after the
motor vehicle runs off roadway but before events are stabilized."3 The term is
sometimes abbreviated as "MVA" - answerMotor Vehicle Traffic Accident
Who's responsibility is it to control and normalize a motor vehicle crash scene,
determine the contributing factors or related causes, and to identify, document and
report the facts surrounding the crash? - answerPolice
"a crash involving a motor vehicle in transport, does not involve an aircraft or watercraft,
and does not include any harmful event involving a railway train in transport prior to
involvement of a motor vehicle in transport. - answerMotor Vehicle Crash
"the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any
part thereof is open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel." -
answerHighway (street)
that part of a trafficway which includes both the roadway and any shoulder alongside
the roadway - answerRoad
That part of a trafficway designed, improved, and ordinarily used for motor vehicle travel
or, where various classes of motor vehicles are segregated, that part of a trafficway
used by a particular class - answerRoadway
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