Safety, Size Up, & Response
These are the three things you should ask a driver to provide to you after determining they were involved in a crash
What are Driver's License, Vehicle Registration, and Proof of Insurance?
This is the first event during a traffic crash that causes injury or property damage and determines jurisdiction.
What is the First Harmful Event?
What is Pre-Existing Damage?
This part of the Long Form contains an illustration of the traffic crash scene with all key events, including the pre-collision, at-collision, and post-collision phases
What is the Diagram Section?
This allows a driver to provide information about a crash to law enforcement without worrying that it will be used against them in a criminal case
What is Crash Privilege?
When setting up a roadblock, you should avoid redirecting traffic through these places
What are Residential Areas, Schools, and Playgrounds?
This is the point at which vehicles, property, or people crush together to the greatest extent
What is Maximum Engagement?
This is a cut into the surface of the road where some part of the vehicle removed the road surface material
What is a Gouge?
This is how long an officer has to submit a crash report, as per Chapter 316 F.S.
What is 10 Days?
A driver must sign any citation that requires this
What is a Mandatory Hearing?
This should be done to prevent statements and recollections from being influenced
What is Separating Drivers from Witnesses?
This is when vehicles, property, or people separate, either naturally or from post-crash intervention by a person
What is Disengagement? (Post-Collision Phase)
This type of tire mark indicates a sudden change in direction of a tire due to collision forces
What are Offset Skid Marks?
Running a red light, driving too fast for conditions, and violating right of way are examples of this type of violation
What is a Contributing Traffic Violation?
This is any action the driver takes to alter the speed or direction of a vehicle to avoid danger or hazard
What is Evasive Action?
When responding to a crash of unattended property, a deputy should do this when they are unable to locate the property owner
What is leave your contact info or driver exchange on the damaged property?
The location of the first harmful event or first damage producing event in the traffic crash, which indicates where the collision occurred and is the likely location of the debris field
What is the Area of Collision?
This is where you will begin to measure a skid mark, though it is temporary and may only be visible for 15-20 minutes
What is the Incipient Skid?
The final diagram in a Long Form should be professionally prepared, with all appropriate entries, measurements, a legend of symbols, and _____
What is a "Not to Scale" notation?
Florida law requires drivers of operable vehicles to do this
What is remove their vehicles off the roadway?
These are three reasons why you would not relocate crash vehicles
1. A traffic crash with fatalities
2. The vehicles are too disabled to move
3. The crash is a crime scene that needs processing
These are the 4 possible factors/events that occur during Phase 1 (Pre-Collision)
1. Point of Perception
2. Reaction Time
3. Evasive Action
4. Point of No Escape
These are usually short in length with irregular intervals between them, caused from a sudden load shift from braking hard
What are Skip Skid Marks?
These are the 5 reasons why a Long Form would be required per F.S.
1. The crash resulted in death, injury, or complaint of injury to anyone involved
2. A driver left the scene that involved damage to attended vehicles/property
3. A driver drove under the influence
4. A vehicle was rendered inoperable to a degree that required a wrecker to remove it from the crash scene
5. A commercial motor vehicle was involved
This is the definition of a serious bodily injury
What is An Injury to a Person, which Consists of a Physical Condition that Creates a Substantial Risk of Death, Serious Personal Disfigurement, or Protracted Loss or Impairment of a Bodily Member or Organ?