ISSN: 2490-3477

E-ISSN: 2490-3485

TTTP

Traffic and Transport Theory and Practice

Journal for Traffic and Transport Research and Application

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025): TTTP - APEIRON

Miroslav Janjić , Ljubinko Mitrović

Criminal Procedure Principles of Traffic-Technical Expertise

Original scientific paper

DOI: 10.7251/JTTTP2501016J

Abstract

Traffic accidents are an everyday occurrence in modern society and usually occur when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animals, road debris or other immovable obstacles, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic accidents very often result in minor and serious injuries, participants’ disability, death or minor/major property damage, as well as financial costs of both society and individuals involved in the events during and after the traffic accident. There are numerous causes that contribute to the risk of collisions, i.e. traffic accidents, including vehicle design, driving speed, appearance, i.e. road condition, road environment, driving skills of traffic participants, alcohol or drug use by the participants, as well as their behavior, especially other participants driving obstructions, speeding and street racing. 

Expertise is a procedural action that is undertaken by a Court or the Prosecutor’s Office order, with the fulfillment of the conditions prescribed by law. Expertise involves the engagement of special experts, whose obligation is to examine the expertise subjects that have been handed over to them in accordance with the rules of their scientific field, technical knowledge, skills or artistic orientation, and then provide their expert findings and opinion. 

Traffic-technical expertise is a special type of expertise which analyzes the material elements from the case file and conducts a detailed analysis of the traffic accident course. In this regard, the expert examination determines the manner in which the traffic accident occurred, the position of the vehicles at the time of the accident, the speed of the vehicles involved in the accident, the location of the collision and the position of the vehicles immediately before the collision. In order to establish the above facts, it is necessary to state all the findings that were collected through analysis, including some of the basic data if the expert analyzed it: who was driving, what were the weather or traffic conditions at the accident scene, etc.

Keywords: traffic accident, vehicle, expert, expert examination, traffic-technical expert examination, criminal procedure.

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025): TTTP - APEIRON

Miroslav Janjić , Ljubinko Mitrović

Criminal Procedure Principles of Traffic-Technical Expertise

Original scientific paper

DOI: 10.7251/JTTTP2501016J

Abstract

Traffic accidents are an everyday occurrence in modern society and usually occur when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animals, road debris or other immovable obstacles, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic accidents very often result in minor and serious injuries, participants’ disability, death or minor/major property damage, as well as financial costs of both society and individuals involved in the events during and after the traffic accident. There are numerous causes that contribute to the risk of collisions, i.e. traffic accidents, including vehicle design, driving speed, appearance, i.e. road condition, road environment, driving skills of traffic participants, alcohol or drug use by the participants, as well as their behavior, especially other participants driving obstructions, speeding and street racing. 

Expertise is a procedural action that is undertaken by a Court or the Prosecutor’s Office order, with the fulfillment of the conditions prescribed by law. Expertise involves the engagement of special experts, whose obligation is to examine the expertise subjects that have been handed over to them in accordance with the rules of their scientific field, technical knowledge, skills or artistic orientation, and then provide their expert findings and opinion. 

Traffic-technical expertise is a special type of expertise which analyzes the material elements from the case file and conducts a detailed analysis of the traffic accident course. In this regard, the expert examination determines the manner in which the traffic accident occurred, the position of the vehicles at the time of the accident, the speed of the vehicles involved in the accident, the location of the collision and the position of the vehicles immediately before the collision. In order to establish the above facts, it is necessary to state all the findings that were collected through analysis, including some of the basic data if the expert analyzed it: who was driving, what were the weather or traffic conditions at the accident scene, etc.

Keywords: traffic accident, vehicle, expert, expert examination, traffic-technical expert examination, criminal procedure.

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025): TTTP - APEIRON

Miroslav Janjić , Ljubinko Mitrović

Criminal Procedure Principles of Traffic-Technical Expertise

Original scientific paper

DOI: 10.7251/JTTTP2501016J

Abstract

Traffic accidents are an everyday occurrence in modern society and usually occur when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animals, road debris or other immovable obstacles, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic accidents very often result in minor and serious injuries, participants’ disability, death or minor/major property damage, as well as financial costs of both society and individuals involved in the events during and after the traffic accident. There are numerous causes that contribute to the risk of collisions, i.e. traffic accidents, including vehicle design, driving speed, appearance, i.e. road condition, road environment, driving skills of traffic participants, alcohol or drug use by the participants, as well as their behavior, especially other participants driving obstructions, speeding and street racing. 

Expertise is a procedural action that is undertaken by a Court or the Prosecutor’s Office order, with the fulfillment of the conditions prescribed by law. Expertise involves the engagement of special experts, whose obligation is to examine the expertise subjects that have been handed over to them in accordance with the rules of their scientific field, technical knowledge, skills or artistic orientation, and then provide their expert findings and opinion. 

Traffic-technical expertise is a special type of expertise which analyzes the material elements from the case file and conducts a detailed analysis of the traffic accident course. In this regard, the expert examination determines the manner in which the traffic accident occurred, the position of the vehicles at the time of the accident, the speed of the vehicles involved in the accident, the location of the collision and the position of the vehicles immediately before the collision. In order to establish the above facts, it is necessary to state all the findings that were collected through analysis, including some of the basic data if the expert analyzed it: who was driving, what were the weather or traffic conditions at the accident scene, etc.

Keywords: traffic accident, vehicle, expert, expert examination, traffic-technical expert examination, criminal procedure.