How long can traffic accident detention usually come out?

There are two ways to be detained for traffic accidents. One is that the person who caused serious injury or death and took full or main responsibility for the accident is suspected of traffic accident. After criminal detention, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law. The other is administrative detention by the traffic safety department of the public security organ for violating the Road Traffic Safety Law. The longest period of administrative detention is fifteen days.

Legal basis:

1. Article 133 of the Criminal Law Whoever commits a serious accident in violation of traffic management, causing serious injury or death to people or causing heavy losses to public or private property, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; Whoever escapes after a traffic accident or has other particularly bad circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; Whoever escapes and causes death shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years.

Two. The Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Traffic Accidents stipulates that a traffic accident shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention under any of the following circumstances:

(a) one person died or more than three people were seriously injured, and they were fully or mainly responsible for the accident;

(2) An accident in which three or more people died and were equally responsible;

(3) Causing direct losses to public property or other people's property, and being wholly or mainly responsible for the accident, and being unable to compensate for the amount of more than 300,000 yuan.

If a traffic accident causes serious injuries to more than one person, and bears all or the main responsibility for the accident, and has one of the following circumstances, he shall be convicted and punished for the crime of traffic accident:

(a) driving a motor vehicle after drinking or taking drugs;

(2) Driving a motor vehicle without driving qualification;

(three) driving a motor vehicle knowing that the safety device is incomplete or the safety components are out of order;

(4) Driving with knowledge of unlicensed or scrapped motor vehicles;

(five) serious overload driving.