California Vehicle Code CHAPTER 1 - Accidents and Accident Reports

• Section 20000.
  The provisions of this division apply upon highways and elsewhere throughout the State, unless expressly provided otherwise.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 20011.
  Every coroner shall on or before the tenth day of each month report in writing to the Department of the California Highway Patrol the death...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 20016.
  Any peace officer, any member of an organized fire department or fire protection district, any employee of the Department of Transportation assigned to maintenance operations,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 830.2 of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018