N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 603: Accidents; police authorities and coroners to report

§ 603. Accidents; police authorities and coroners to report. 1. Every

police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in injury to a

person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing provisions of

this chapter or pursuant to the provisions of sections twelve hundred

forty or twelve hundred forty-one of this chapter involving a bicycle

with electric assist or pursuant to the provisions of sections twelve

hundred eighty-seven or twelve hundred eighty-eight of this chapter,

shall immediately investigate the facts, or cause the same to be

investigated, and report the matter to the commissioner forthwith;

provided, however, that the report of the accident is made to the police

officer or judicial officer within five days after such accident. Every

coroner, or other official performing like functions, shall likewise

make a report to the commissioner with respect to all deaths found to

have been the result of motor vehicle, motorcycle, electric scooter, or

bicycle with electric assist accidents. Such report shall include

information regarding the type or types of vehicles involved, including

passenger motor vehicles, commercial motor vehicles, motorcycles,

limited use motorcycles, off-highway motorcycles, electric scooters,

bicycles with electric assist and/or bicycles. Such report shall include

information on the width and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and

semitrailers, which are in excess of ninety-five inches in width or

thirty-four feet in length and which are involved in such accidents,

whether such accident took place in a work area and whether it was being

operated with an overweight or overdimension permit. Such report shall

distinctly indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable

restraint system inflated and deployed. Nothing contained in this

subdivision shall be deemed to preclude a police officer from reporting

any other accident which, in the judgment of such police officer, would

be required to be reported to the commissioner by the operator of a

vehicle pursuant to section six hundred five of this article.

2. In addition to the requirements of subdivision one of this section,

every police officer or judicial officer to whom an accident shall have

been reported involving a commercial vehicle as defined in either

subdivision four of section five hundred one-a or subdivision one of

section five hundred nine-p of this chapter shall immediately

investigate the facts, or cause the same to be investigated and report

the matter to the commissioner forthwith, provided that the report of

the accident is made to the police officer or judicial officer within

five days after such accident, whenever such accident has resulted in

(i) a vehicle being towed from the accident scene as the result of

incurring disabling damage, (ii) a fatality, or (iii) any individual

being transported to a medical facility to receive treatment as the

result of physical injury sustained in the accident.