INVESTIGATION OF VEHICULAR CRIME WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO ADOPTING THE NEW MEANS AND METHODS OF FORENSIC SCIENCE

The scientific and technological achievements of the second half of the 20th century - revolutionising science, production and information transfer, altering people's lifestyle in most parts of the world – have inevitably affected jurisdiction as well. It was a two-way affect. On one hand as a negative consequence, delinquency gained a new, dangerous weapon which offers a chance for committing crimes with enormous profit and for making illegal income vanish. On the other hand, as a positive consequence, efficient devices appeared in the armoury of criminalistics. Public area delinquency is an important component of vehicular crime and within that especially road traffic offenses of which those causing mayhem (1999: 3615, 2006: 3374, 2009: 2997) and those fatal (1999: 590, 2009: 350) shows decrease in Hungary. Evaluating modern criminalistics devices as evidences is spreading quickly, which are detailed in the article in connection with traffic offenses.