(A) The Police Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Digests of such reports shall be made available through the Chief of Police, at the request of and for the use and information of the Traffic Commission.
(B) The driver of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of $250 or more shall immediately forward to the Police Department a copy of any report the driver is required to forward to the state.
(C) (1) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required in division (B) above, and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, such occupant should give, or cause to be given, the notice not given by the driver.
(2) Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of an accident as required in division (B) above and such driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in such accident shall within five days after learning of the accident make such report not made by the driver.
(D) (1) All required accident reports and supplemental reports shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the Police Department except that the Department may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when such identity is not otherwise known or when such person denies their presence at such accident. No such report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except that the Department shall furnish upon demand of any person who has, or claims to have made such a report, or upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the Department solely to prove a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirement that such a report be made to the Department.
(2) The Department may furnish to the Secretary of State copies of required accident reports or information taken from such reports. All such copies of reports or information taken from them shall be for the confidential use of the Secretary of State.
(Prior Code, § 70.020) (Ord. 65-3, passed 4-19-1965) Penalty, see § 70.999