CHAPTER 1. Accidents and Accident Reports
Heading of Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 281, Sec. 2.
§§ 20000–20018 · 17 sections
- § 20000 The provisions of this division apply upon highways and elsewhere throughout the State, unless expressly provided otherwise.
- § 20001 (a) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to a person, other than himself or herself, or in the death of a person shall…
- § 20002 (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to any property, including vehicles, shall immediately stop the vehicle at the…
- § 20003 (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person shall also give his or her name, current residence address,…
- § 20004 In the event of death of any person resulting from an accident, the driver of any vehicle involved after fulfilling the requirements of this division, and if…
- § 20006 If the driver does not have his driver’s license in his possession, he shall exhibit other valid evidences of identification to the occupants of a vehicle with…
- § 20008 (a) The driver of a vehicle, other than a common carrier vehicle, involved in any accident resulting in injuries to or death of any person shall within 24…
- § 20009 The Department of the California Highway Patrol may require any driver, or the owner of a common carrier vehicle, involved in any accident of which a report…
- § 20010 Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required accident report, any occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident shall…
- § 20011 A coroner or medical examiner shall on or before the 10th day of each month report in writing to the Department of the California Highway Patrol the death of…
- § 20012 All required accident reports, and supplemental reports, shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the…
- § 20013 No such accident report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except that the department shall furnish upon…
- § 20014 All required accident reports and supplemental reports and all reports made to the Department of the California Highway Patrol by any peace officer, member of…
- § 20015 (a) No traffic or police officer shall include in any counter report of a property-damage accident, as defined in this section, any determination by the peace…
- § 20016 Any peace officer, any member of an organized fire department or fire protection district, any employee of the Department of Transportation assigned to…
- § 20017 Any peace officer who knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that a pesticide has been spilled or otherwise accidentally released, shall report the spill…
- § 20018 Every law enforcement agency having traffic law enforcement responsibility as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 830.1 and in subdivision (a) of Section…