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First : ―Today, there are more drivers on the road carrying a mobile phone than perhaps those carrying a (genuine) driving licence. This phenomenon can be utilised for the purposes of investigation of motor accidents.
The Police Control Room can set up a Cell for Accident Identification with a dedicated telephone number (having several lines) to which the Investigating Officer deputed to investigate an accident upon reaching the spot can make calls and it would register the number from which the calls are coming and the time as part of its call listing of received calls. Upon reaching the spot, the Investigating Officer (or the PCR Van) should take possession of the mobile phones of all concerned - driver, occupant/s, victim/s. Thereupon the Investigating Officer should make calls to the aforesaid designated police telephone number in the following order:
1. from his own (Investigating Officer's) mobile phone;
2. from the driver's mobile (If the driver is carrying more than one mobile phone, such phone calls be made from each of the phones.);
3. from the mobile phones of the occupant/s of the car; and 4 from the victim's mobile phone.
After these calls, there be another call from the Investigating Officer's mobile phone to this number to signify the end of series. Appropriate system to bunch these calls can be easily engineered. The necessary information (call details) can then be transferred to the electronic case file which is opened for the particular accident.
To be doubly sure, the Investigating Officer may also call his own number from the driver's mobile phone. If no number is displayed, the Investigating Officer ought to seize the mobile phone.
Signature Not Verified FAO 842/2003 Page 6 of 62 Digitally signed by:RAJENDER SINGH KARKI Signing Date:13.01.2021 18:54:39Identification of the mobile phones in use at the time of the accident and accessibility through the service provider to driver's (and others') location and call listings for the preceding period will give law enforcement a much stronger hand. And more importantly, prevent false claims when there has not been any accident or injury.