Time Limit For Traffic Accident Reporting Must Be Known

Deadline for reporting traffic accidents. (Freepic)

YOGYAKARTA - The biggest risk that can occur on the highway is traffic accidents. Meanwhile, there is a time limit for reporting traffic accidents that can be done. Before discussing this, we will first discuss the types of traffic accidents.

Traffic accidents are divided into 3 groups, namely:

Referring to Article 312 of the LLAJ Law, hit-and-run is a traffic accident where motorized vehicle drivers who are involved intentionally do not stop their vehicles, do not provide assistance, or do not report traffic accidents to the Police for no proper reason.

In full, the article on hit-and-run, namely Article 312 of the LLAJ Law with the following sound:

Anyone who drives a Motorized Vehicle involved in a Traffic Accident and intentionally does not stop his vehicle, does not provide assistance, or does not report a Traffic Accident to the nearest Indonesian National Police as referred to in Article 231 paragraph (1) letter a, letter b, and letter c for no reason who deserves to be punished with a maximum imprisonment of 3 (three) years or a maximum fine of IDR 75,000,000.00 (seventy five million rupiah).

With the basis of the above provisions, the hit-and-run sentence is a maximum imprisonment of 3 years or a maximum fine of Rp. 75 million. However, it should also be noted that the hit-and-run case has been classified as a crime, not a violation.

In the LLAJ Law, the time limit for reporting traffic accidents to the police is not strictly regulated.

However, there are criminal provisions in the LLAJ Law, so that the rules regarding the expiration of criminal charges refer to Article 78 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code which is still valid, namely:

For additional information, in Law 1/2023 concerning the New Criminal Code which is valid starting 3 years from the date of promulgation, namely 2026, the provisions for the expiration of prosecution are contained in Article 136 paragraph (1) of Law 1/2023, among others:

If you look at Article 310 of the LLAJ Law, if the case of a traffic accident or hit-and-run results in:

From the explanation above, if you become a victim of a hit-and-run and get minor injuries, then the time period to report the incident is 6 years since the traffic accident occurred.

Meanwhile, if the victim is seriously injured or dies, then the deadline for reporting the incident is 12 years since the traffic accident occurred.

Such is the review of the deadline for reporting traffic accidents. Hopefully useful. Visit VOI.id to get other interesting information.