49-1305. IMMEDIATE NOTICE OF ACCIDENTS. (1) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person, or damage to the property of any one (1) person in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) shall immediately, by the quickest means of communication, give notice of the accident to the local police department if the accident occurs within a city, otherwise to the office of the county sheriff or the nearest office of the state police.
(2) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required herein, and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, the occupant shall give or cause to be given the notice not given by the driver.
History:
[49-1305, added 1988, ch. 265, sec. 326, p. 741; am. 1990, ch. 69, sec. 1, p. 151; am. 2005, ch. 269, sec. 1, p. 832.]
Structure Idaho Code
Section 49-1301 - ACCIDENTS INVOLVING DAMAGE TO VEHICLE.
Section 49-1302 - DUTY TO GIVE INFORMATION IN ACCIDENT INVOLVING DAMAGE TO A VEHICLE.
Section 49-1303 - DUTY UPON STRIKING UNATTENDED VEHICLE.
Section 49-1304 - DUTY UPON STRIKING FIXTURES UPON OR ADJACENT TO A HIGHWAY.
Section 49-1305 - IMMEDIATE NOTICE OF ACCIDENTS.
Section 49-1306 - WRITTEN REPORTS OF ACCIDENTS.
Section 49-1307 - ACCIDENT REPORT FORMS.
Section 49-1308 - FILING FALSE ACCIDENT REPORTS.
Section 49-1309 - CORONERS TO REPORT.
Section 49-1310 - GARAGES TO REPORT.
Section 49-1311 - ACCIDENT REPORTS.
Section 49-1312 - DEPARTMENT TO TABULATE AND ANALYZE ACCIDENT REPORTS.
Section 49-1313 - ANY INCORPORATED CITY MAY REQUIRE ACCIDENT REPORTS.
Section 49-1314 - TESTING BLOOD OF PERSONS KILLED IN ACCIDENTS.
Section 49-1315 - REPORT AND INVESTIGATION OF TRAFFIC HAZARD CAUSING ACCIDENT.
Section 49-1316 - ERECTION OF MEMORIALS TO PERSONS KILLED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS.