(a) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in damage to real property, or personal property attached to such real property, legally upon or adjacent to a public road or highway shall immediately stop and take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the property of such fact, of his or her name and address, and of the registration number of the vehicle he or she is driving and shall, upon request and if available, exhibit his or her driver's or commercial driver's license.
(b) If the owner or person in charge of such property cannot be located after reasonable search, the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident resulting in damage to such property shall, within 24 hours after such accident, forward to the police department of the municipality the same information required to be given to the owner or person in control of such property and give the location of the accident and a description of the damage insofar as it is known.