Legal Question in Personal Injury in Missouri

Are you required to report a single car accident in St. Louis, Missouri?


Asked on 12/16/11, 9:43 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Anthony Smith LawSmith

A crime may or may not be committd by the failure to report a single car accident to the police. But, if the vehicle hits something other than dirt, there may be a duty to report. If a guard rail was damaged, the driver that caused and failed to report the damage, may be crimianlly culpable and/or civily liable for damage to others who are later harmed by the weakend rail. If a road sign is damaged or destroyed by the single car accident, then the driver may be similarly culpable or liable for a later injury.

If the driver in a single car accident damages the personal or real property of another, they may have violated an ordinance in St. Louis if they fail to give sufficient information to the Police or the owner of that property.

If a person, such a pedestrian, is injure din the single car accidnet, ther is defiantley aduty to not hide the injury from authorities. There are some infamous cases of drivers hitting apedisrian in a sigle car accient and then dhiding their car and the pediestrian. In most of the cases the driver get many years, if not a life sentence in prison.

If a car is damaged in a single car accident, and the driver is later involved in another accident, the driver may lose their abilit o make alcaim through ther automobiel insurer. So, in tha tway , there is sort of duty to report the damge incurred in a one car accident.

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Answered on 12/17/11, 4:01 am


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