Definitions traffic

Question 1

Hit and run offence

Answer 1

Means an offence against this act or the crimes act 1961 involving an event in which a person is struck by a motor vehicle and injured or killed as a result,and the driver fails to stop and render assistance.

Question 2

Serious traffic accident

Answer 2

An accident involving a vehicle that results in injury or death to a person

Question 3

Motor vehicle

Answer 3

A vehicle drawn or propelled by mechanical power and includes a trailer

Question 4

Vehicle

Answer 4

A contrivance equipped with wheels, tracks, or revolving runners on which it moves or is moved

Question 5

Road includes;

Answer 5

A street, motorway, beach. A place to which the public have access wether as of right or not and all bridges ferries and fords forming a part of a road, motorway. All sites which vehicles may be weighed for the purposes of this act or any other enactment