V.C. Section 16000.1 - Reportable Off-Highway Accident

A picture of a man and a woman using DMV Online Services

Enlarge Text
Click to increase the text size. Restore Text
Click to restore original text size. Reduce Text
Click to decrease the text size.

Home Page >> Publications >> Vehicle Code Title Page >> Vehicle Code Table of Contents >> Division 7, Chapter 1, Article 1 >> Section 16000.1

Reportable Off-Highway Accident

16000.1. (a) For purposes of this division, a "reportable off-highway accident" means an accident which includes all of the following:

(1) Occurs off the street or highway.

(2) Involves a vehicle that is subject to registration under this code.

(3) Results in damages to the property of any one person in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750) or in bodily injury or in the death of any person.

(b) A "reportable off-highway accident" does not include any accident which occurs off-highway in which damage occurs only to the property of the driver or owner of the motor vehicle and no bodily injury or death of a person occurs.

Amended Sec. 5, Ch. 766, Stats. 2002. Effective January 1, 2003.