Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 810.460 (2026)

Officer’s accident report; use

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section ORSoregonlegislature.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

      810.460 Officer’s accident report; use. (1) A police officer shall submit a report to the Department of Transportation whenever the officer does any of the following:

      (a) Investigates a vehicle accident which ORS 811.725 or 822.600 requires to be reported.

      (b) Prepares a report of an accident investigated at the time and place of the accident or by field interviews with the participants or witnesses.

      (2) A police officer shall submit a report required by this section to the department within 10 days of the investigation or preparation of the report.

      (3) Police reports submitted to the department under this section are subject to release or use as provided under ORS 802.240. [1983 c.338 §406; 1985 c.16 §216; 1993 c.224 §4; 1993 c.751 §63; 1997 c.678 §12]

 

      810.470 [1983 c.338 §407; 1993 c.224 §5; 1993 c.751 §64; 1997 c.678 §13; repealed by 2005 c.195 §3]

 

(Stops and Inspections)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1989–2025 · leading case: State v. Haney, 97 P.3d 1211 (Or. Ct. App. 2004).
State v. Haney, 97 P.3d 1211 (Or. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 8× “The state maintains that the entry was a legitimate administrative search authorized by ORS 810.460, which requires officers at accident scenes to submit accident reports.”
State v. Anfield, 836 P.2d 1337 (Or. 1992). · cites it 2× “) ORS 810.460 further provides: "(1) A police officer shall submit a written report to the division whenever the officer does any of the following: " (a) Investigates a vehicle accident which ORS 811.”
State v. Watson, 769 P.2d 201 (Or. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 3× “For example, the state cites ORS 810.460, which imposes a duty on a police officer to file an accident report.”
State v. Layton, 344 Or. App. 699 (Or. Ct. App. 2025). “ORS 810.460(1)(b) (requiring offi- cers to submit a report following an investigation conducted under ORS 810.”
State v. Layton, 344 Or. App. 699 (Or. Ct. App. 2025). “ORS 810.460(1)(b) (requiring offi- cers to submit a report following an investigation conducted under ORS 810.”
Zackheim v. Forbes, 895 P.2d 793 (Or. Ct. App. 1995). “ORS 810.460. The department, in turn, is required to maintain those accident reports.”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 810.460(1)(b) — 2 cases
State v. Layton, 344 Or. App. 699 (Or. Ct. App. 2025). “ORS 810.460(1)(b) (requiring offi- cers to submit a report following an investigation conducted under ORS 810.”
State v. Layton, 344 Or. App. 699 (Or. Ct. App. 2025). “ORS 810.460(1)(b) (requiring offi- cers to submit a report following an investigation conducted under ORS 810.”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 810.460(l)(a) — 1 case
State v. Watson, 769 P.2d 201 (Or. Ct. App. 1989). “For example, the state cites ORS 810.460, which imposes a duty on a police officer to file an accident report.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.