10. CRIME, TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, FIRES

Other offences include offences of violence, offences against property and against morality, frauds and other criminal acts.

Traffic accident is an event occurring on a road (a car crash etc.) and resulting in death or injury, or causing property damage, which is directly related to the operation of a vehicle. All accidents of which the Police is notified are computer recorded and stored.

Excluded for this purpose are events in which a vehicle is damaged, or a person killed or injured, without any connection to a collision with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal or fixed obstacle (e.g. damage during repairs, unloading or loading of a vehicle).

For the purpose of computer records, a killed person is a person who died on the spot, during transport to hospital, or within 24 hours after the accident. The record is updated if a person involved in an accident dies in the period from 24 hours to 30 days after the accident occurs.

Severe injury is a serious disorder or illness, as classified usually by a physician. Light injury is any injury except a severe one. For the purpose of computer records, light injury is injury to physical or mental functions even if the person concerned is not incapacitated for work.

FIRES

Data on fires and main reasons for the action of fire and rescue service units were compiled from information prepared by the Czech Fire and Rescue Service..