New York Laws
Article 22 - Accidents and Accident Reports
605 - Report Required Upon Accident.

(b) Every person operating a bicycle which is in any manner involved
in an accident on a public highway in this state in which any person is
killed, other than the operator, or suffers serious physical injury as
defined pursuant to subdivision ten of section 10.00 of the penal law,
shall within ten days after such operator learns of the fact of such
death or serious physical injury, report the matter in writing to the
commissioner. If such operator is physically incapable of making such
report within ten days, he or she shall make the report immediately upon
recovery from the physical incapacity. If such operator is an
unemancipated minor who is incapable of making such report for any
reason, the parent or guardian of such operator shall make such report
within ten days after learning of the fact of such accident. Every such
operator of a bicycle, or parent or guardian of such unemancipated minor
operator, shall make such other and additional reports as the
commissioner shall require.
(c) The report required by this section shall be made in such form and
number as the commissioner may prescribe. Such report shall include
information on the width and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and
semitrailers, which are in excess of ninety-five inches in width or
thirty-four feet in length and which are involved in such accidents,
whether such accident took place in a work area and whether it was being
operated with an overweight or over dimension permit. Such report shall
distinctly indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable
restraint system inflated and deployed.