(A) Whenever a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer involved in an accident is found upon any highway and is so located as to impede the orderly flow of traffic, the police officer may:
(1) At no cost to the owner or operator, remove the vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to some point in the vicinity where it will not impede the flow of traffic; or
(2) Have the vehicle removed to a storage area for safekeeping and shall report the removal to the State Department of Motor Vehicles and to the owner of the vehicle, as promptly as possible.
(B) If the vehicle is removed to a storage area under division (A)(2) above, the owner shall pay to the parties entitled thereto all costs incidental to its removal and storage.
(1998 Code, § 62-155)