N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 603-b: Accidents; police to indicate serious physical injury and death on simplified traffic information or summons and compliant

§ 603-b. Accidents; police to indicate serious physical injury and

death on simplified traffic information or summons and compliant. In

addition to the requirements of section six hundred three of this

article and subdivision twelve of section eleven hundred ninety-two of

this chapter, in every case where a law enforcement officer is required

to report pursuant to section six hundred three of this article and a

person is charged with a violation of this chapter arising out of such

accident, the law enforcement officer alleging such charge shall make a

clear notation in the "Description of Violation" section of a simplified

traffic information, or in an area provided on a summons and complaint

pursuant to subdivision one of section two hundred twenty-six of this

chapter, if, arising out of the same accident, someone other than the

person charged was killed or suffered serious physical injury as defined

in section 10.00 of the penal law; such notation shall be in the form of

a "D" if someone other than the person charged was killed and such

notation shall be in the form of a "S.P.I." if someone other than the

person charged suffered serious physical injury; provided however, that

the failure to make such notation shall in no way affect a charge for a

violation of this chapter.