In the field of traffic and road safety, is failure to render assistance considered a crime?

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Failure to render assistance is not a mere administrative traffic offense, but a crime set out in the Criminal Code (Article 195). It requires you to help a person who is helpless and in manifest and serious danger, when this can be done without risk to yourself or to third parties, or to call urgently for outside help if you cannot give it directly. The basic penalty is a fine of three to twelve months. If the victim is the victim of an accident caused by the person who fails to help, the penalty is imprisonment of six to eighteen months and, if the accident was due to negligence, imprisonment of six months to four years. That is why it is not merely an administrative offense with a financial penalty, nor a minor offense with no criminal consequences.

In the field of traffic and road safety, is failure to render assistance considered a crime?

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