Hit-and-run is the crime of colliding with a person, their personal property (including their motor vehicle), or a fixture, and failing to stop and identify oneself afterwards. In many jurisdictions there may be an additional obligation to exchange information about one's financial responsibility (including any applicable insurance) or to summon emergency services if they are needed. For other uses, see Collision (disambiguation). ... A person is defined by philosophers as a being who is in possession of a range of psychological capacities that are regarded as both necessary and sufficient to fulfill the requirements of personhood. ... Personal property is a type of property. ... In the law of real property, fixtures are anything that would otherwise be a chattel that have, by reason of incorporation or affixation, become permanently attached to the real property. ... Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it. ... Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of catastrophic financial loss. ... Emergency services are services that deal with emergencies and other aspects of Public Safety. ...

Hit-and-run has severe legal consequences including the suspension or cancelling of one's driver's license, as well as imprisonment. Lifetime revocation of a driver license is possible in certain jurisdictions. Current EU driving licence, German version - front 1. ... A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. ...

Hit-and-run laws arose from the difficulties that early car accident victims faced in identifying perpetrators so that they could be brought to justice. Apart from the obvious ability of an automobile to flee the scene quickly (if still driveable), drivers often wore driving goggles, vehicles at the time did not have license plates, and roads were unpaved and thus quite dusty.^[1] The result of excessive speed, this cement truck rolls over into the front garden of a house. ... Watersport goggles Blowtorching goggles and safety helmet Goggles and safety glasses are forms of protective eyewear that usually enclose or protect the eye area in order to prevent particulates or chemicals from striking the eyes. ... // Introduction A license plate, number plate or registration plate (often referred to simply as a plate, or colloquially tag) is a small metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle for official identification purposes. ...

In many jurisdictions, hitting an animal and leaving the scene of the accident without stopping is equivalent to animal cruelty.^[2][3] Depending on the jurisdiction, sentences range from $200–$20,000 fines to imprisonment. [1] Cruelty to animals refers to treatment which causes unacceptable suffering to animals. ...

Country-specific penalties

Germany

Article 142 of the Strafgesetzbuch (penal code) hit-and-run ("illicit leaving of the scene of an accident") is punished with prison up to three years or a fine. Persons who have caused an traffic accident or have contributed to it have the duty to identify themselves to the victims or to other contibuters, if possible. If the victim is not present (e.g. damage of a parking car) the one who caused the accident has to wait a certain time. If the victim doesn't appear, he has to leave his adress or to report the accident to the police.

Mainland China

Article 101 of the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China provides lifetime revocation of driver licenses for hit and run. The Road Traffic Safety Law of the Peoples Republic of China (中华人民共和国道路交通安全法) is a law which was passed by the National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China on October 28, 2003, promulgated...

Taiwan

Article 62 of the Act Governing the Punishment of Violation of Road traffic Regulations (zh:道路交通管理處罰條例) proclaimed on 28 December 2005 and effective on 1 July 2006 provides the following administrative penalties: December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Section 1: Without personal injury and death, hit-and-run drivers of motor vehicles are subject to administrative fines of 1000 to 3000 new Taiwan dollars and suspension of their driver licenses for 1 to 3 months. The New Taiwan Dollar (新臺幣 or 新台幣; ISO 4217 code TWD; common abbreviation NT$), or simply Taiwan Dollar, is the currency of the Republic of China (Taiwan). ...

Section: 4: With minor personal injury, hit-and-run drivers of motor vehicles are subject to revocation of their driver licenses, for 1 year pursuant to Section 3 of Article 67. With serious personal injury or death, hit-and-run drivers of motor vehicles are subject to revocation of their driver licenses, for lifetime pursuant to Section 1 of Article 67, but Article 67-1 allows a possible waiver after serving the revocation for 12 years if the revocation involved personal death, or 10 years if involving serious personal injury.

With personal injury or death, hit-and-run drivers of motor vehicles are also subject to imprisonment of 6 months to 5 years pursuant to Article 185-4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of China (zh:中華民國刑法).

See also

• Road rage
• Vehicular homicide

Road rage or road violence is the common name for deliberately dangerous and/or violent behaviour under the influence of heightened anger by a motor vehicle operator that affects the safety of one or more other operators or bystanders. ... Vehicular homicide is in most places a criminal act involving the killing of a life by hitting it with a vehicle. ...

References

1. ^ Edward C. Fisher, Vehicle Traffic Law (Evanston, IL: Traffic Institute, Northwestern University, 1961): 289.
2. ^ New Hampshire legislation. University of Texas. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
3. ^ Washington legislation. University of Texas. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.

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