14. Breakdowns and Collisions

• If you have a breakdown, get your vehicle off the road, if possible.
• Use your hazard warning lights and breakdown warning triangles to warn other traffic.
• When passing the scene of an incident or collision, do not be distracted or slow down unnecessarily.
• The Code seeks to promote safe and responsible behaviour on the road. In- spite of this, you may have the misfortune of being involved in a collision. Should this happen, you are obliged to: (i) stop immediately; (ii) see whether anyone involved in the collision has been killed or injured; (iii) if anyone has been injured, give all the help you can; (iv) if anyone has been killed, take reasonable steps to guard the corpse; (v) give your name and address and those of the owner of the vehicle you are driving to any person who has reasonable grounds for requiring this information; (vi) if, for any reason, you do not give these particulars to the person requiring them, you MUST report the accident at a Police Station or to a police officer as soon as reasonably practicable and, in any case, within twenty- four hours.