Texas Transportation Code Title 7, Chapter 550 - Accidents And Accident Reports

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER B DUTIES FOLLOWING ACCIDENT

• Texas Section 550.001 - Applicability Of Chapter
  This chapter applies only to: (1) a road owned and controlled by a water control and improvement district; (2) a private access way or parking...
• Texas Section 550.021 - Accident Involving Personal Injury Or Death
  (a) The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident that results or is reasonably likely to result in injury to or death of a...
• Texas Section 550.022 - Accident Involving Damage To Vehicle
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the operator of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to a vehicle that is...
• Texas Section 550.023 - Duty To Give Information And Render Aid
  The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in the injury or death of a person or damage to a vehicle that is...
• Texas Section 550.024 - Duty On Striking Unattended Vehicle
  (a) The operator of a vehicle that collides with and damages an unattended vehicle shall immediately stop and: (1) locate the operator or owner of...
• Texas Section 550.025 - Duty On Striking Structure, Fixture, Or Highway Landscaping
  (a) The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to a structure adjacent to a highway or a fixture or...

SUBCHAPTER C INVESTIGATION OF ACCIDENT

• Texas Section 550.026 - Immediate Report Of Accident
  (a) The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of a person or damage to a vehicle to...

SUBCHAPTER D WRITTEN ACCIDENT REPORT

• Texas Section 550.041 - Investigation By Peace Officer
  (a) A peace officer who is notified of a motor vehicle accident resulting in injury to or death of a person or property damage to...
• Texas Section 550.0601 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "department" means the Texas Department of Transportation. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1407 (S.B. 766), Sec. 2, eff. September...
• Texas Section 550.061 - Operator's Accident Report
  (a) The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident shall make a written report of the accident if the accident is not investigated by...
• Texas Section 550.062 - Officer's Accident Report
  (a) A law enforcement officer who in the regular course of duty investigates a motor vehicle accident shall make a written report of the accident...
• Texas Section 550.063 - Report On Appropriate Form
  The form of all written accident reports must be approved by the department and the Department of Public Safety. A person who is required to...
• Texas Section 550.064 - Accident Report Forms
  (a) The department shall prepare and when requested supply to police departments, coroners, sheriffs, garages, and other suitable agencies or individuals the accident report forms...
• Texas Section 550.065 - Release Of Certain Information Relating To Accidents
  (a) This section applies only to the following information that is held by the department or another governmental entity: (1) a written report of an...
• Texas Section 550.066 - Admissibility Of Certain Accident Report Information
  An individual's response to the information requested on an accident report form as provided by Section 550.064(b)(4) is not admissible evidence in a civil trial....
• Texas Section 550.067 - Municipal Authority To Require Accident Reports
  (a) A municipality by ordinance may require the operator of a vehicle involved in an accident to file with a designated municipal department: (1) a...

SUBCHAPTER E OTHER REPORTS

• Texas Section 550.068 - Changing Accident Report
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a change in or a modification of a written report of a motor vehicle accident prepared by a...
• Texas Section 550.081 - Report Of Medical Examiner Or Justice Of The Peace
  (a) In this section: (1) "Department" means the Texas Department of Transportation. (2) "Bridge collapse" means the abrupt failure of the basic structure of a...

Last modified: September 28, 2016