NYSCOPBA Crash Reporting Law

§  605. Report required upon accident. (a) 1. Every person operating a

  motor vehicle, except  a  police  officer  (as  defined  in  subdivision

  thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law), a correction

  officer,  or  a firefighter, operating a police department, a correction

  department, or fire department vehicle respectively while on duty, if  a

  report  has  been  filed  by  the owner of such vehicle, which is in any

  manner involved in an accident, anywhere within the boundaries  of  this

  state,  in  which any person is killed or injured, or in which damage to

  the property of any one person, including  himself,  in  excess  of  one

  thousand  dollars  is  sustained,  shall  within  ten  days  after  such

  accident, report the matter in writing  to  the  commissioner.  If  such

  operator  or chauffeur be physically incapable of making such report and

  there be another participant in the  accident  not  incapacitated,  such

  participant  shall make such report within ten days after such accident.

  If the operator or chauffeur involved in such accident be unable to make

  such report, the owner of the motor vehicle involved in  such  accident,

  if  such  owner be not involved in such accident or incapacitated, shall

  within ten days after he learns of the fact of such accident report  the

  matter  to  the  commissioner together with such information as may have

  come to his knowledge relating to such accident. Every such operator  or

  chauffeur  of  a  motor vehicle, or participant in any such accident, or

  owner of the motor vehicle involved in any  such  accident,  shall  make

  such other and additional reports as the commissioner shall require.