About 75% of all accidents in transport occur due to violations of traffic rules by drivers. The most dangerous types of violations are still speeding, ignoring traffic signs, driving into oncoming traffic and driving while drunk. Very often bad roads (mainly slippery), malfunction of cars lead to accidents.
The peculiarity of car accidents is that 80% of the wounded die in the first three hours due to heavy blood loss.

How to act when a collision is imminent

Keep your composure – this will allow you to control the machine to the last opportunity. Tighten all the muscles to the limit, do not relax to a complete stop. Do everything to get away from the oncoming blow: a ditch, a fence, a bush, even a tree is better than a car coming at you. Remember that in a collision with a stationary object, the impact of the left or right wing is worse than the entire bumper. Protect your head if impact is imminent.
If you are riding in the front passenger seat, cover your head with your hands and lie on your side, sprawled out in the seat. Sitting in the back seat, try to fall to the floor. If there is a child next to you, cover him with you.

What to do if your car falls into water

When falling into the water, the car can stay afloat for some time, enough to leave it. Get out through the open window, because. when you open the door, the car will suddenly start to sink.
When diving to the bottom with closed windows and doors, the air in the car interior is kept for several minutes. Turn on the headlights (to make it easier to find the car), actively ventilate the lungs (deep breaths and exhalations allow you to fill the blood with oxygen “for the future”), get rid of excess clothes, grab documents and money. Get out of the car through the door or window when the car is half full of water, otherwise you will be disturbed by the flow of water going into the passenger compartment. If necessary, break the windshield with a heavy handy object.

Rendering assistance to road accident victims:

If the victim is trapped in the interior of an emergency vehicle and cannot leave it on their own

It is necessary to establish contact with the victim and monitor his condition until the arrival of an ambulance or rescuers. DO NOT (except as described below) attempt to reach the casualty yourself, as this may aggravate injury. The easiest way to control the state of the victim is a dialogue. In the course of communication with the victim, you can find out his complaints. Unconscious victims should be checked periodically for signs of breathing. It is imperative to perform a periodic external examination for the onset or recurrence of bleeding and control of bandages or tourniquets applied. In addition, you should monitor the environment to eliminate possible dangers in a timely manner.

Sometimes there may be a situation where you need to remove the victim. At the same time, it should be remembered that emergency removal of victims from a car or other hard-to-reach place is carried out ONLY WHEN THERE IS A THREAT TO HIS LIFE AND HEALTH (persistent smell of gasoline, vehicle smoke, etc.) and it is impossible to provide first aid in the conditions in which the victim is located (heartbeat and breathing stop, there is no possibility of warming, etc.). In all other cases, it is necessary to wait for the arrival of an ambulance and other services involved in the elimination of the consequences of the incident.

If victim is conscious

His emergency extraction is performed as follows: the hands of the first aid participant are held under the armpits of the victim, fixing his forearm, after which the victim is removed outside (Figure 1).

General actions in case of an accident

• Stop the car, turn on the hazard warning lights, set the warning triangle.
• Call emergency services by dialing 101 or 112 and specify:
  the exact address (for a settlement) or the name and kilometer of the road where the accident occurred (if it is impossible to establish the exact location, you should find out as much as possible the available landmarks – famous sights nearby, large shopping centers, campsites, nearest settlements, etc.);
  the number of damaged cars, their body types, brands (if possible), the degree of their deformation (destruction) and the position after the car accident (standing on wheels, rolled over on their side, on the roof, outside the carriageway, etc.);
  information about the number of victims and the nature of their injuries/wounds (in which cars and how many people are there, the degree of their compression, condition, whether there are children among them, etc.);
  the presence of secondary damaging factors (fire, leakage of fuel and lubricants, unknown substances (chemical, poisonous);
  other circumstances at the scene of an accident that may pose a danger (damage to a power line pylon; trees, poles, other structures that can collapse and cause additional damage to damaged vehicles and people in them).
• Turn off the ignition and disconnect the battery in damaged vehicles to prevent fire and airbags (if they did not deploy on impact).
• Disconnect the battery by disconnecting (cutting) the negative (negative) cable first, which will eliminate the possibility of sparking caused by accidental grounding of the positive terminal.
• Render, if necessary, first aid to the injured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created based on materials from the official Internet portal of EMERCOM of the Russian Federation