Automobiles are necessary things in our life, but traffic accidents are one of representative disasters which threat our life. As of late 2004, the number of the people who died of car accidents was 3. 9 per one million cars and 13.6 per 10 millions o...
Automobiles are necessary things in our life, but traffic accidents are one of representative disasters which threat our life. As of late 2004, the number of the people who died of car accidents was 3. 9 per one million cars and 13.6 per 10 millions of the population. The evaluation is the lowest in the member countries of OECD, which indicates that our country is behind the international standards. The thing that describes low standards of our country definitely is that drivers run away after they cause car accidents.
The runningaway is a crime by intention while normal car accidents are caused by faults of drivers. As it is a very malignant crime, the police prepared the police system in charge of runningaway car accidents alone in 1997 to eliminate the runningaway, but the ability to prevent and arrest criminals has not been improved yet.
So, this study aims to making every effort to control runningaway crimes basically, arrest criminals through scientific investigational activities when such crimes happen and prevent the people from being victims of runningaway. Therefore, it speculates theoretically the concept, characteristics and components of normal car accidents to understand runningaway car accidents.
Then, it outlines the current status of runningaway car accidents and insurance to save the victims. The following problems of runningaway accidents are presented: in legal and institutional aspects, punishment by legal courts focusing on heavy crimes, lack in guilty mind due to exemption from legal action as criminals are considered as obtaining agreement from victims if only the criminals of the runningaway are admitted to general insurance in terms of Car Accidents Special Case Law, visual admission of car number board, confusion of unlicensed car repair centers, and increased no-insured cars due to premium rate of general insurance are factors which cause runningaway car accidents. In respect to investigation, lack in professionalism of the investigators, the investigational staff and investigational infrastructures are the factors that influence runningaway accidents.
To solve the problems, this study suggests as follows: in respect to institutions, punishments in legal court should be mitigated in terms of the special case extra punishment law, the range of special case should be reduced and punishments should be reinforced in terms of the car accidents special case law, visual admission of car number board should be improved, the people who witness the runningaway should report it exactly and insurance system should be unionized to decrease no-insured cars. To improve investigational power, the investigational staff should be professionally trained, scientific investigational equipment should be introduced, risk that anyone can be victims of runningaway accidents should be promoted, psychological pressure that any one who caused runningaway are inevitably arrested should be given through strong regulation. So, only when preceeding actions leading to runaway are eliminated, runningaway can be prevented.
Finally, there are 15 million cars running in our country and car accidents are frequently happening. However, as the persons who cause car accidents are generously treated as faulty criminals, their guilty mind is very weak.
Therefore, runningaway which is inhuman and shameless is increasing, but little attention is given to it, which is very frustrating. Runningaway must be eliminated. For the purpose, the most important thing is that victims should be first saved when accidents happen. As long as drivers who cause murder keep wrong recognition that they are unlucky to cause accidents, runningaway will not decrease.