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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 5 : Accidents

15-503 : When driver unable to report.

  1. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required by this division and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, the occupant, shall give or cause to be given, the notice not given by the driver.
  2. Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of an accident as required by this division and the driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in the accident shall, within ten (10) days after learning of the accident, make the report not made by the driver. (1973 Code, § 11-64)