CDI Finals Module
CDI Finals Module
Criminology Department
(A.Y. 2020-2021)
PREPARED BY:
Instructor
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PREFACE
This module wishes to provide essential and vital knowledge and information regarding traffic management and
accident investigation with driving, in relation to the course bachelor of science in criminology. In accordance to
CHED Memorandum Order No. 5 series of 2018, this reading material is within the bounds of the said CMO.
This module is prepared and made to totally understand the basic principle in traffic management and accident
investigation with driving. The topics were also comprise of different textbooks, handouts and reading materials
regarding traffic management and accident investigation with driving in relation to R.A. 11131 or an act
regulating the practice of criminology profession in the Philippines, and appropriating funds therefor, repealing
for the purpose of R.A. 6506 otherwise known as “an act creating the board of examiners for criminologist in the
Philippines”.
This material is especially designed for criminology students for them to easily understand the essential and
basic matters regarding the traffic accident investigation and hit-and-run accident ivestigation. However,
students were highly encouraged to read and research further about this subject matter to fully enhance their
knowledge.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
ACTIVITY 1 14
ACTIVITY 2 15
ACTIVITY 3 16
ACTIVITY 4 18
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LESSON 1
OJECTIVES: at the end of the lesson, the student shall be able to:
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION – Generally, to know what question to ask and what to look for, you must
have some fundamental bearing on accidents and their causes. When you speak of traffic accident, everybody
knows what you mean – SOMETHING WENT WRONG on the highway, either a wrecked car, somebody is injured
or possibly killed.
A. WHAT TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION DETERMINES? It aims to know the five (5) “W’s” and one (1)
“H” of the incident:
1. What happened?
2. Who and what was involved.
3. Where did it happen?
4. How did the accident occur?
5. Why did it happen?
6. When did the accident happen?
B. PURPOSES OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION. There are four (4) main reasons, depending on who
does the investigation:
1. Everyone involved is curious about the causes and circumstances of the accident.
2. For the police – to find out whether there is enough evidence of law violation in the accident.
3. Claims attorneys and adjusters want to determine negligence on the part of the drivers involved in
the accident so that damage claims can be properly adjusted.
4. Officials and others want specific information about accidents to know how to prevent future
accidents.
C. COMMON WORDS AND PHRASES USED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION. The following words
and phrases with their corresponding meaning are often used in the process.
1. ACCIDENT. It is that occurrence is a sequence of events which usually produces unintended injury,
death, or property damage.
2. TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. An accident involving travel transportation on a traffic way.
3. MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT. Events resulting in unintended injury or property damage attributable
directly or indirectly to the action of a motor vehicle or its loads. Included are:
a. Accidental injury from inhalation of exhaust gas;
b. Fires;
c. Explosion;
d. Discharge of firearm within the motor vehicle while in motion;
e. Collision between a motor vehicle and a railroad train or street car on stationary rails or tracks; and
f. Failure of any part of the motor vehicle while the vehicle is in motion.
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EXCLUDED ARE:
a. Collision of a motor vehicle with an aircraft or water craft in motion:
b. Injury or damaged due to cataclysms (flood or sudden physical change of the earth surface) and
c. Injury or damage while the motor vehicle is not under its power is being loaded on or unloaded from
another conveyance.
4. MOTOR VEHICLE. Every device which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric
power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
5. KEY EVENT. An event on the road which characterizes the manner of occurrence of a motor vehicle
traffic accident.
6. DEBRIS. The scattered broken parts of vehicles, rubbish, dust, and other materials left at the scene of the
accident caused by a collision.
7. SKID MARKS. These are marks left on the roadway by tires which are not free to rotate, usually because
brakes are applied strong and the wheels locked.
8. TRAFFIC UNIT. Any person using a traffic way for travel, parking or other purposes as a pedestrian or
driver, including any vehicle, or animal which he is using. It applies not only to motor vehicles but also
to:
a. Pedestrians;
b. Cyclist;
c. Street cars;
d. Horse-drawn (animal-drawn) vehicles;
e. Farm tractors; and
f. Other road users in almost any combination – example; a traffic accident could involve a cyclist and
a pedestrian.
9. HAZARDS. A hazard is generated when a critical space-motion relationship between a traffic unit and
another object develops due to the movement of either or both. Example: A curve in the path is a
hazard. Another traffic unit in the path is also a hazard.
10. SAFE SPEED. The speed adjusted to the potential or possible hazards or the road and traffic situation
ahead. Safe speed on the road is determined by the road rather than the particular driver of a vehicle.
Example: A curve ahead is a hazard and a safe speed for it is a speed at which it can be taken
comfortably.
11. STRATEGY. It is the adjusting of speed, position on the road, and direction of motion, giving signals of
intent to turn or slow down, or any other action in situations involving potential hazards.
12. TACTIC. Any action taken by the traffic unit to avoid hazardous situations like steering, braking, or
accelerating to avoid collision or other accident.
13. IMPACT. The striking of one body against another or a collision of a motor vehicle with another motor
vehicle.
14. CONTACT DAMAGE. Damage to a vehicle resulting from direct pressure of some foreign object in a
collision or roll over. It is usually indicated by striations, rub-off of material or puncture.
15. FACTOR. Any circumstance contributing to a result without which the result could not have occurred or
it is an element necessary to produce the result, but not by itself sufficient.
16. PRIMARY CAUSE. A misnomer loosely applied to the most obvious or easily explained factor in the cause
of an accident or the most easily modified condition factor.
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17. CAUSE. The combination of simultaneous and sequential factors without anyone of which result could
not have occurred.
18. ATTRIBUTE. Any inherent characteristics of a road, a vehicle, or a person that affects the probability of a
traffic accident.
19. MODIFIER. A circumstance that alters an attribute permanently or temporarily.
FIVE LEVELS OF ACTIVITY IN ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION. In the investigation of traffic accidents, the police are
guided by the following stages or levels of investigation.
1. REPORTING – This stage involves basic data collection to identify and classify a motor vehicle, traffic and
persons, property and planned movements involved.
2. AT-SCENE INVESTIGATION – this level involves all action taken by the investigator at the scene of the
crime or accident.
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3. TECNICHAL PREPARATION – this involves delayed traffic accident data collection and organization for
study and interpretation.
5. CAUSE ANALYSIS – this last level usually involves final analysis on the causes of accident which are bases
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IN CASE OF INJURIES:
1. Stop arterial bleeding
2. Ask for help
3. Protect the wound for exposure
4. Cordon the place
LESSON 2
HIT-AND-RUN IVESTIGATION
OBJECTIVES: at the end of the lesson, the student shall be able to:
A. HIT-AND-RUN CASES DEFINED. Evading responsibility is a term commonly applied to a traffic accident in
which a driver fails to comply with any of the duties required by section 55 of RA 4136. Further, it states
that no driver of a motor vehicle concerned in a vehicle accident shall leave the scene of accident
without aiding the victim, except under any of the following circumstances, as discussed earlier.
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drivers who fear publicity and prosecution; ignorance of the accident; driver who flees in panic; drug
addicts, insurance or financial reasons; and or juveniles.
E. PRELIMINARY STEPS IN HIT-AND-RUN INVESTIGATION. The following usually serve as the guideline for
hit-and-run cases investigators:
1. Refer to checklist of accident investigation.
2. Obtain the best possible descriptions of the car and driver.
a. A good description may be obtained from partial descriptions given by witnesses.
b. Get the license plate and any unusual features of the vehicle.
c. Concentrate on the cars description first.
d. Dispatch initial description and all subsequent information to the headquarters and to police
agencies that may assist in spotting and stopping the suspect vehicle.
e. Broadcast descriptions of the suspected car and driver to all police units and offices.
f. Try to determine the damage to the fleeing car.
3. Appeal for information through local newspapers, radio, t.v. and etc.
4. Carefully search the hit-and-run scene for physical evidence.
a. These may include broken glasses and fragments, hubcaps, paint scrapping from hit-and-run car,
other evidence such as dirt from subject car, radiator, ornament, etc.
b. Carefully preserve and label all evidence found at the scene.
c. Request laboratory study of evidence.
d. Watch out for the possible return of the hit-and-run driver to the scene of the accident. This has
been known to happen.
5. The victim
a. Check his clothing; other parts of his body, tire marks, grease, paint chips, fragments, and such
things that might have been left on him by the suspect car.
b. If the victim is killed, get samples of uncontaminated blood from him at the morgue and samples
of hair, skin etc.
c. Collect and preserve for laboratory examination, the clothes, shoes, and other items he was
wearing at the time of accident.
F. FOLLOW UP INVESTIGATION. During follow up investigation, the investigator should:
1. Interview persons living along the route taken by the hit-and-run driver; also operators of filling
stations and garages.
2. Canvas parking lots and other filling stations and garages.
3. Return to the accident scene at the same time on subsequent days and on the same day of the
following weeks to obtain additional witnesses such as delivery men operating on scheduled routes.
4. Follow-up phone calls to garages and dealers of auto parts.
5. Continue appealing for information through the press, radio and TV.
G. SEARCH FOR SUCPECT CAR. if it is located and recovered:
1. Look for physical evidence, such as latent fingerprints, pieces of clothing, marks, damaged parts,
hair, blood, etc. which will identify the car as the involved in the hit-and-run accident.
2. Search the undercarriage of the suspect car. Determine also if there is indication of disturbance in
the grease or dirt adhering to it.
3. Make a careful investigation for replaced parts.
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REFERENCES
DELIZO, DARLITO BERNARD G, Ph. D, CE (2014) “TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION”
SECOND EDITION
WWW.SCRIBD.COM
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ACTIVITY SHEETS
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CDI 4
(TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION W/ DRIVING)
GENERAL INSTRUCTION: PLEASE PRINT THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITY SHEETS AND ANSWER IT ACURATELY AND
LEGIBLY. PROVIDE ALSO A SHORT BROWN FOLDER FOR YOUR ACTIVITY SHEETS. SUBMISSION DATE WILL BE
BEFORE THE FINALS EXAMINATION PERIOD.
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TACURONG CITY
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9. NO OVERTAKING
10. NO BLOWING OF HORNS
11. SPEED LIMIT.
12. STOP SIGN
13. YIELD SIGN
III. INFORMATIVE SIGN.
1. DIRECTIONAL SIGN
2. PLACE IDENTIFICATION SIGN
3. STOP SIGN FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING.
TACURONG CITY
NAME:___________________________________ DATE:______________
INSTRUCTION: DEFINE EACH STATEMENT BRIEFLY. ANSWERS MUST NOT BE LESS THAN 65 WORDS.
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