Now the traffic accident is very much, accident occurred, the total traffic police team on the vehicle not to put, to force the party mediation. So there is always a friend asked this question: after a traffic accident, the traffic police team in the end how long time may detain the vehicle. The following answer according to current law.

The authority:"The people's Republic of China Road Traffic Safety Law"Article seventy-second paragraph second due to the need to gather evidence to detain the vehicle accident;"Traffic accident management procedures"Twenty-eighth due to the need to gather evidence to detain the vehicle accident, and motor vehicle license, and shall issue a certificate administrative coercive measures. Vehicles and motor vehicle driving license shall properly keep the detained. secondShall not detain the vehicle accident cargo.

To determine the period:"Traffic accident management procedures "Within 5 days of forty-fourth inspection, identification of the conclusions to determine the date, shall notify the party concerned for the accident vehicle, motor vehicle driving permit and detain the seized articles; thirty-seventh the need for inspection, identification, shall within 3 days since the accident scene survey commissioned by the end of the day. Shall within 3 days at the date of death by autopsy; thirty-eighth police departments shall and inspection, appraisal institutions agreed inspection, identification of deadline, the agreed time limit for a maximum of 20 days. Approved by the upper level, no longer than 60 days."Road traffic accident treatment work norms"Fifty-ninth from the field investigation within 7 days from the date of the case of escape, in 7 days after the vehicle and the driver is found, or the inspection, appraisal conclusion determined within 2 days from the date of submission of the traffic accident, report to responsible person; sixtieth of deaths is difficult, and complicated cases, shall be made by the research the police collective intermediate above accident processing qualification, according to the principle of the minority is subordinate to the majority, the formation of collective study of views, different opinions should be documented, submit for approval. The collective research and approval work required after receiving report completed within 2 days;

Conclusion:Due to detain the vehicle accident reason just to collect evidence, so the accident is made -- can be inferred according to relevant evidence to make the responsibility has been gathered, otherwise it is what made the accident report, detained reason has ceased to exist, should be in the accident report made after the release the detained vehicle accident. In this way, detain the vehicle accident period is divided into two situations: first, does not need to test the accidents due to accident, must be made within 10 days after the confirmation of investigation and examine the scene. So to detain the vehicle for the longest period of only 10 days. Two, need to test the accident, traffic police team commissioned the inspection and appraisal of the longest period of 10 days -- because although the relevant provisions do not explicitly limited traffic police team end field investigation of the time limit, the investigation period but does not need to test the length of only 10 days, found within 3 days after the Commission of authentication (including will entrust service the appraisal department, appraisal department to accept time) after 60 days, the longest 20 days generally make an appraisal conclusions (should contain time will test the appraisal conclusion to the traffic police team), conclusion the traffic police team made should be within 5 days after the car. So, need to test, generally 38 days, special circumstances by the approval of 78 days.