Policy Text
I. POLICY: The Atlantis Police Department has
established guidelines for traffic crash investigation and
reporting practices. To ensure that a thorough crash
investigation is completed, officers will collect factual
information identifying and describing the results of the
crashes in terms of damage to vehicles and roadside
objects, injuries to people, marks and residue on the
road, and final positions of vehicles and bodies. The
investigating officer will submit his or her interpretation of
these facts on the appropriate crash report form in terms
of the behavior of road users involved and, sometimes,
the peculiar combinations of factors required to produce
that particular crash.
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