Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 49-1305 (2026)
Immediate notice of accidents.
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Immediate notice of accidents.
(1) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person, or damage to the property of any one (1) person in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) shall immediately, by the quickest means of communication, give notice of the accident to the local police department if the accident occurs within a city, otherwise to the office of the county sheriff or the nearest office of the state police.
(2) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required herein, and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, the occupant shall give or cause to be given the notice not given by the driver.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2013–2013 · leading case: State v. Posey (Idaho Ct. App. 2013).
State v. Posey (Idaho Ct. App. 2013). “§ 23-505; and failure to give immediate notice of an accident, 2 I.C. § 49-1305. Posey filed a motion to suppress, arguing the officer’s entry into her residence violated her state and federal constitutional rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.”
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