Classification of the damage levels of the traffic accident in Vietnam

Classification of the damage levels of the traffic accident in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. What is a traffic accident?

According to Clause 1 and Article 5 of Vietnam's Circular 58/2009/TT-BCA (C11), a traffic accident is an event that occurs because a road user operating on the road traffic network violates regulations on road traffic order and safety or encounters unexpected incidents that cause certain damages to human life and health or the property of agencies, organizations, or individuals.

2. Classification of the damage levels of the traffic accident in Vietnam

According to Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Article 5 of Vietnam's Circular 58/2009/TT-BCA (C11), the severity of traffic accidents is classified as follows:

* A traffic collision is an event that occurs because traffic participants operating on the road traffic network violate the regulations on road traffic order and safety or encounter unexpected incidents that cause damage to human health or cause damage to the properties of agencies, organizations, or individuals below the prescribed level of traffic accidents, causing less serious consequences.

* Traffic accidents with less serious consequences:

- Causing less serious consequences in a traffic accident is one of the following:

- Endangering a person's health with an injury rate of 11% to less than 31%;

- Endangering the health of many people, with individual injury rates of less than 11% but a total injury rate of 21% to less than 41%;

- Causing damage to property worth five million dong to fifty million dong.

* Traffic accidents with severe consequences:

- Causing serious consequences in a traffic accident is one of the following:

- Murdering someone;

- Causing harm to the health of one or two people with an injury rate of 31% or more for each person;

- Causing harm to the health of many people with an injury rate of less than 31% for each person, but the total injury rate of all these people is from 41% to 100%;

- Causing harm to a person's health with an injury rate of between 21% and 30% and causing property damage valued at between thirty million dong and under fifty million dong;

- Causing harm to the health of many people with an injury rate of less than 21% for each person, but the total injury rate of all these people is between 30% and 40% and causing damage to valuable property from thirty million dong to less than fifty million dong;

- Causing property damage valued between fifty million dong and five hundred million dong.

* Traffic accidents are extremely dangerous:

- Causing very serious consequences in a traffic accident is one of the following:

- Killing two people;

- Causing death of a person and causing consequences in one of the cases specified at Points b, c, d, dd and e, Clause 4, Article 5 of Circular 58/2009/TT-BCA (C11);

- Causing harm to the health of three to four people with an injury rate of 31% or more for each person;

- Causing harm to the health of many people with the total injury rate of all these people from 101% to 200%;

- Causing harm to one or two people's health with an injury rate of 31% or higher for each person and causing consequences in one of the cases specified in Clause 4 of this Article 5 of Circular 58/2009/TT-BCA (C11);

- Causing damage to property worth less than one billion five hundred million dong.

* Traffic accidents with particularly serious consequences:

- Causing particularly serious consequences in a traffic accident is one of the following:

- Causing death of three or more people;

- Causing the death of two people and causing consequences in one of the cases specified at points b, c, d, dd, and e of Circular 58/2009/TT-BCA (C11), Clause 4, Article 5;

- Causing a person's death and causing consequences in one of the cases specified in Clause 5, Article 5 of Circular 58/2009/TT-BCA (C11);

- Causing harm to the health of five or more people with an injury rate of 31% or more for each person;

- Causing harm to the health of many people with the total injury rate of these people over 200%;

- Causing harm to the health of three or four people with an injury rate of 31% or more for each person and causing damage to property specified at Point e, Clause 5, Article 5 of Circular 58/2009/TT-BCA (C11);

- Causing damage to property valued at one billion five hundred million dong or more.

Quoc Dat

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