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Florida Motor Vehicles Code Section 316.064 - State Uniform Traffic Control - When driver unable to report.

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Title XXIII   MOTOR VEHICLES

Chapter 316   STATE UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL

316.064  When driver unable to report.--

(1)  A crash report is not required under this chapter from any person who is physically incapable of making a report during the period of such incapacity.

(2)  Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making an immediate or a written report of a crash, as required in ss. 316.065 and 316.066, and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the crash capable of making a report, such occupant shall make or cause to be made the report not made by the driver.

(3)  Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of a crash as required in this chapter, then the owner of the vehicle involved in the crash shall, within 10 days after the crash, make such report not made by the driver.

(4)  A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a nonmoving violation as provided in chapter 318.

History.--s. 1, ch. 71-135; s. 15, ch. 94-306; s. 86, ch. 99-248.

Last modified: November 21, 2006