THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, YOUNGBLOOD AND V. BROWN, JUNE 2, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 2, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for immediate notice of accident

to police department.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 3746 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 3746.  Immediate notice of accident to police department.

(a)  General rule.--The driver of a vehicle involved in an

accident shall immediately by the quickest means of

communication give notice to the nearest office of a duly

authorized police department if the accident involves:

(1)  injury to or death of any person; or

(2)  damage to any vehicle involved to the extent that it

cannot be driven under its own power in its customary manner

without further damage or hazard to the vehicle, other

traffic elements, or the roadway, and therefore requires

towing.

(b)  Duty of occupant if driver disabled.--Whenever the

driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving an

immediate notice of an accident as required in subsection (a)

and there is another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the

accident capable of doing so, the occupant shall make or cause

to be given the notice not given by the driver.

(c)  Investigation by police officer.--Every accident

reported to a police department [required in this section] shall

be investigated by a police officer who shall physically report

to the scene of the accident and shall provide each driver a

signed statement that the accident was reported.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.