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You witness a road collision without being involved. Casualties need help, your assistance can be useful and officers have not yet arrived. Must you assist or request assistance to the extent you can?

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Yes, assist or request assistance to the extent possible.

Yes. Article 129 requires assistance or requesting assistance and helping avoid further danger, as far as possible and applicable. Do not create hazards; call 112 and follow instructions. An uninvolved witness has exceptions where assistance is manifestly unnecessary or officers have already attended. Criminal failure-to-assist liability requires the conditions in Criminal Code article 195, including helplessness and manifest serious danger; not every failure to intervene automatically constitutes that offence.

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  • No, being uninvolved always removes any duty.

  • Yes, assist or request assistance to the extent possible.

  • There is a duty only if a casualty expressly asks.

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