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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Article 406: Failure to Render Aid to a Person Injured in a Traffic Accident

(1) The driver of a motor vehicle or other means of transport who injures another with that vehicle or whose injury s/he has caused and abandons that person without rendering aid, shall be fined or punished by a term of imprisonment of up to one year.

(2) Where grievous bodily injury of the injured person occurs as a result of the failure to render aid, the offender shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of between six months and three years.

(3) Whether the death of the injured person occurs as a result of the failure to render aid, the offender shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of between one and eight years.

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