10.1 Traffic and Control
10.2 Motor Vehicle Offenses
10.2 Motor Vehicle Offenses
10.4 Traffic Crash Investigation
10.5 UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET
100

Describe The Role of Peace Officer Regarding Traffic

  • Traffic enforcement and traffic investigation
  • Traffic enforcement
  • According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the primary tool used to reach the scene of a crime and to elude the police is a vehicle
  • The criminal uses the vehicle to get to the crime scene
  • The criminal uses the vehicle as part of the crime
  • The criminal uses the vehicle to leave the crime scene
  • As a peace officer, if you have probable cause to believe a violation of law exists, then it is your duty and responsibility to take appropriate enforcement action
  • Traffic law enforcement is important in reducing general crime
  • Crimes (e.g., robbery, rape, vehicle theft) may be prevented by a visible police presence
  • The criminal wants to conduct activity without being detected or identified at or near the scene of a crime
  • If the criminal knows there is a great possibility of being contacted by an officer, the criminal may chose not to commit the crime or move to a lesser enforced jurisdiction
  • Traffic investigation
  • Officers will investigate traffic collisions, including hit skip and serious injury involving felony charges
  • They will also investigate specific complaints (e.g., violator’s passing school busses, traffic control devices not being followed, road rage incidents)
  • Officers need to be aware that these investigations may turn into something more than just a traffic violation
100

IDENTIFY THE PRIMARY REASON FOR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT

- TO REDUCE TRAFFIC COLLISIONS, THEIR RESULTING INJURIES, AND TO FACILITATE THE SAFE AND EXPEDIENT FLOW OF VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC

100

Identify the Ohio Revised Code chapter that covers motor vehicle crimes

- R.C CHAPTER 4549

- Covers motor vehicle crimes

100

List a peace Officer’s Priorities in Protecting the Scene of a Crash

  • The first priority is to protect the crash victims and the first responders
  • Always wear your high visibility safety vest when directing traffic or investigating crashes
  • Check for injuries
  • Even if you were dispatched to a non-injury crash, check for injuries
  • EMS should always be requested to respond to the scene if an injury is reported or suspected
  • If responding to a fatality, always protect and cover up the deceased victims
  • Any injured or deceased victims should be treated the same as you would treat your own family members
  • Protect the involved vehicles and other evidence at the crash scene
  • Place sufficient and adequate warning devices (e.g., signs, reflectors, flares or fusees, traffic cones) on approaches to the scene as well as appropriate directional signs within the scene area, to give proper warning to drivers and other highway users
100

Explain the Information an Officer must relay to a Defendant concerning The Defendant’s failure to appear in court at the time stated on the Affidavit or pay for a Traffic Ticket.

  • The defendant’s driver’s license or commercial driver’s license will be suspended
  • The defendant is not eligible for reissuance of a license or certification of registration until the person appears and complies with all orders of the court
  • The defendant remains subject to any applicable criminal penalties
200

IDENTIFY THE OHIO REVISED CODE SECTION THAT COVERS DEFINITIONS RELATED TO MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES

- IS LOCATED IN THE 01. SECTION OF EACH CHAPTER

200

APPLY OHIO REVISED CODE CHAPTER AND SUBSECTIONS COVERING MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES

- R.C 4511.12 OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES

-R.C 4511.20 OPERATION IN WILLFUL OR WANTON DISREGARD OF THE SAFETY OF PERSONS OR PROPERTY (I.E RECKLESS OPERATION)

-R.C 4511.2O4 DRIVING WHILE TEXTING

-R.C 4511.21 SPEED LIMITS- ASSURED CLEAR DISTANCE

-R.C 4511.25 LANES OF TRAVEL UPON ROADWAYS OF SUFFICIENT WIDTH

.. ETC.

200

Recognize When A Situation Is Classified As a Motor Vehicle Traffic Accident.

  • The incident includes one or more occurrences of injury or damage
  • At least one occurrence of injury or damage was not the direct result of cataclysm (i.e., an avalanche, landslide/mudslide, hurricane, cyclone, downburst, flood, torrential rain, cloudburst, lightning, tornado, tidal wave, earthquake, volcanic eruption)
  • The incident involved one or more motor vehicles
  • At least one motor vehicle was in-transport
  • The incident was an unstabilized situation
  • The unstabilized situation originated on a trafficway or the injury or the damage occurred on a trafficway
  • If the incident involved a railway train in-transport, a motor vehicle was involved prior to any injury or damage involving the train
  • Neither an aircraft in-transport nor a watercraft in-transport was involved in the incident
  • If all of these conditions are met and the property damage is over $1,000, the officer will need to complete an OH-1
200

Explain When An Officer may Arrest, rather than issue a Citation, for a Minor Misdemeanor.

  • Offender requires medical care or is unable to provide for his/her own safety
  • Offender will not or cannot offer satisfactory proof of his/her identity
  • Offender refuses to sign the citation
  • Offender has previously been issued a citation for the commission of that particular misdemeanor and failed to satisfy obligations to appear
300

 IDENTIFY THE OHIO REVISED CODE CHAPTER THAT COVERS MOVING VIOLATIONS

- R.C CHAPTER 4511 COVERS MOVING VIOLATIONS

300

Describe the Difference between Contact and Induced Damage.

  • Contact Damage – caused by direct contact with some object which is not a part of the vehicle
  • External contact damage most often appears as collapsed or deformed areas of vehicles, tears or punctures, scratches, or smeared material, transferred from one vehicle to another or one object to another
  • Internal contact damage is found inside the vehicle and is caused when vehicle occupants strike the dashboard, steering wheel, windows, or when objects within the vehicle strike interior parts of the vehicle
  • Relating internal contact damage to injuries sustained by the vehicle occupants assists in determining the seating positions of the occupants
  • Induced Damage – occurs when part of the vehicle is displaced
  • Induced damage is often found adjacent to or around the contact damage and is caused by the forces of the contact damage
  • While the area may not have contacted any other object, it was damaged by the force of the crash
400

IDENTIFY THE OHIO REVISED CODE CHAPTER THAT COVERS EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS

- R.C CHAPTER 4513

400

Recognize what Evidence at a Traffic Crash should be Documented with Photographs.

  • Officers should photograph everything that was damaged and all physical evidence
  • The entire sequence of events for OH-1
  • The approach to the crash scene
  • Photograph the approach and the departure directions of all operators
  • Photograph the view from the driver’s perception point
  • View from the driver’s reaction point
  • View from the driver’s point of no escape
  • Do the same for pedestrians
  • Surface marks on the roadway
  • Photograph debris and marks left upon the roadway and other surfaces
  • Photograph debris and roadway marks in the direction of movement the vehicle or object that made them was traveling
  • The area of impact (i.e., the area between the vehicles involved)
  • Final rest
  • Show where the vehicles came to final rest and in what position


  • If victims or pedestrians are thrown clear of vehicles, photograph their final rest positions in the same way as a vehicle’s final rest
  • Evidence from the scene
  • Tire marks should be documented from the beginning of the mark to the end of the mark
  • Photograph areas of the tire mark that explain a vehicle’s movement (e.g., offset tire marks, the separation of front and rear tire marks)
  • Photograph any traffic control devices
  • Document the position of missing or damaged traffic signs
  • Vehicle damage should be photographed at the scene as additional damage may occur when the vehicles are moved or removed from the scene of the traffic crash
  • To corroborate eyewitness statements, take photographs of the scene from his/her position and eye level
500

IDENTIFY THE OHIO REVISED CODE CHAPTER THAT COVERS DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS

- R.C CHAPTER 4510

-DRIVERS LICENSE SUSPENSIONS

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