Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective June 6, 2024
Section 811.748 - [Operative Until 1/1/2025] Driver failure to report accident to police officer or law enforcement agency; penalty(1) The driver of a vehicle commits the offense of driver failure to report an accident if the driver is driving any vehicle that is involved in an accident required to be reported under ORS 811.745 and the driver, if physically capable, does not give notice of the accident immediately to a police officer or a law enforcement agency by the quickest means available.(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, a driver does not commit the offense of driver failure to report an accident if:(a) The accident required to be reported under ORS 811.745 results in a serious injury or death; and(b) The driver gives notice of the accident immediately to the emergency communications system by the quickest means available.(3) The offense described in this section, driver failure to report an accident, is a Class A traffic violation.Amended by 2015 Ch. 247, § 39, eff. 6/4/2015.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.