NJSA 39:4-130 Failure to Report Accident

NJSA 39:4-130 Failure to Report Accident

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NJSA 39:4-130 Failure to Report Accident 39:4-130. Failure to report accident Immediate notice of accident; written report 39:4-130. The driver of a vehicle or street car involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person, or damage to property of any one person in excess of $500.00 shall by the quickest means of communication give notice of such accident to the local police department or to the nearest office of the county police of the county or of the State Police, and in addition shall within 10 days after such accident forward a written report of such accident to the division on forms furnished by it. Such written reports shall contain sufficiently detailed information with reference to a motor vehicle accident, including the cause, the conditions then existing, the persons and vehicles involved and such information as may be necessary to enable the director to determine whether the requirements for the deposit of security required by law are inapplicable by reason of the existence of insurance or other circumstances. The director may rely upon the accuracy of the information contained in any such report, unless he has reason to believe that the report is erroneous.

The division may require operators involved in accidents to file supplemental reports of accidents http://www.njlaws.com/failure_to_report_accident.html?id=544&a=

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upon forms furnished by it when in the opinion of the division, the original report is insufficient. The reports shall be without prejudice, shall be for the information of the division, and shall not be open to public inspection. The fact that the reports have been so made shall be admissible in evidence solely to prove a compliance with this section, but no report or any part thereof or statement contained therein shall be admissible in evidence for any other purpose in any proceeding or action arising out of the accident.

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Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically Submit Clear incapable of giving immediate notice or making a written report of an accident as required in this section and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of giving notice or making a report, such occupant shall make or cause to be made said notice or report not made by Kenneth Vercammen was the the driver.

Middlesex County Bar Municipal Court Attorney of the Year Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of an accident as required by this section and such driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in such accident shall make such report not made by the driver.

A written report of an accident shall not be required by this section if a law enforcement officer submits a written report of the accident to the division pursuant to R.S. 39:4-131.

Any person who knowingly violates this section shall be fined not less than $30 or more than $100.

The director may revoke or suspend the operator's license privilege and registration privilege of a person who violates this section.

For purposes of this section, it shall not be a defense that the operator of the motor vehicle was unaware of the existence or extent of personal injury or property damage caused by the accident as long as the operator was aware that he was involved in an accident.

Amended 1951, c.23, s.72; 1953,c.187; 1967, c.189, http://www.njlaws.com/failure_to_report_accident.html?id=544&a=

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s.2; 1983, c.193, s.1; 1994, c.183, s.2.

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