§ 511-11. Reporting Accident on Public or Private Property.  


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  • In case of accident or collision resulting in injury or damage to persons or property upon any public or private property other than public roads or highways, due to the driving or operation thereon of any motor vehicle, the person so driving or operating such motor vehicle, having knowledge of such accident or collision, shall stop, and, upon request of the person injured or damaged, or any other person shall give his or her name and address, and, if not the owner, the name and address of the owner of such motor vehicle, together with the registered number of such motor vehicle, and, if available, exhibit his or her operator's or chauffeur's license.

    If the owner or person in charge of such damaged property is not furnished such information the driver of the motor vehicle involved in the accident or collision shall within 24 hours after such accident or collision, report it to a police officer or at a police station giving the date, time, and location of the accident and the same information required to be given to the owner or person in control of such damaged property.

    If such accident or collision is with an unoccupied or unattended motor vehicle, the operator so colliding with such motor vehicle shall securely attach the information required to be given in this section, in writing, to a conspicuous place in or on said unoccupied or unattended motor vehicle.

(Sec. 511-11; ordained by Ord. No. 403-1963, eff. Nov. 20, 1963; a. Ord. No. 276-1968, eff. July 12, 1968; reordained as C.M.C. 511-11, eff. Jan. 1, 1972)

Cross reference

Penalty, §§ 512-1, 512-7.

State law reference

See ORC 4549.02.1.