Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-103 (2026)
Duty to give information and render aid
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or damage to any vehicle that is driven or attended by any person shall give the driver's name, address and the registration number of the vehicle the driver is driving, and shall, upon request and if available, exhibit that driver's operator's or chauffeur's license, or driver license, to the person struck or the driver or occupant of or person attending any vehicle collided with, and shall render to any person injured in the accident reasonable assistance, including the carrying, or the making of arrangements for the carrying, of the person to a physician, surgeon or hospital for medical or surgical treatment if it is apparent that treatment is necessary or if carrying is requested by the injured person.
- (b) The requirements in subsection (a) shall apply to accidents occurring upon highways and the premises of any shopping center, trailer park or any apartment house complex, or any other premises that are generally frequented by the public at large.
- (c) With respect to an ADS-operated vehicle, as defined by § 55-30-102, the requirements of subsection (a) are satisfied if the motor vehicle's owner, or a person on behalf of the motor vehicle's owner, promptly contacts a law enforcement officer or agency to report the accident and the ADS-operated vehicle remains on the scene of the accident as otherwise required by law.
Amended by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 474, s 10, eff. 6/6/2017.
Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 80; T.C.A., § 59-1003; Acts 1988, ch. 788, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1994–2022 · leading case: State v. Blackhurst, 70 S.W.3d 88 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2001).
State v. Blackhurst, 70 S.W.3d 88 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2001). “§ 55-10-103, a Class A misdemeanor; and three counts of reckless aggravated assault, Tenn.”
Morris v. Snodgrass, 886 S.W.2d 761 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1994). “Section 55-10-103, quoted above, whereby a portion of the fines collected under said code section were applied to the expense of confinement.”
State v. Deborah Leigh Goins (Tenn. Crim. App. 2000). “aycox Ed Ryan Assistant District Attorneys General Washington Square, Suite 500 222 2nd Avenue North Nashville, TN 37201-1649 OPINION FILED: AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED NORMA MCGEE OGLE, JUDGE OPINION The appellant, Deborah Leigh Goins, appeals her conviction by a jury in the Davidson…”
Smith v. Grant (W.D. Tenn. 2022). “) Plaintiffs argue that this violates Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-103 and is a violation of a common law tort.”
State v. Stacy Williford (Tenn. Crim. App. 1998). “Section 55-10-101(a) provides that drivers of vehicles involved in accidents resulting in injury or death “shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible, but shall then forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the…”
Robert Davidson v. Charles Lindsey (Tenn. Ct. App. 2001). “Briggs was negligent in violating section 55-10-103 of the Tennessee Code, the duty to give information and render aid.”
State of Tennessee v. Sybil Baker (Tenn. Crim. App. 2003). “The indictment alleged that the appellant was involved in a motor vehicle accident and “failed to remain at the scene of said accident until she had fulfilled the requirements of T.C.A. 55-10-103 . . . all in violation of T.”
State v. Ronald D. Correll (Tenn. Crim. App. 2010). “, but shall forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of such accident until that person has fulfilled the requirements of § 55-10-103. Tenn. Code. Ann. § 55-10-103 (1998) sets forth the duty of any such driver to provide information and render aid to…”
State of Tennessee v. Jeffery Gordon Layhew (Tenn. Crim. App. 2017). “ccident occurred upon the premises of a shopping center, trailer park, apartment complex, or other premises generally frequented by the public at large, a street, alley or public road or highway of the State of Tennessee, and further charges that [the Defendant] unlawfully did…”
State v. Derrick Williams (Tenn. Crim. App. 2000). “Mitigating Factor 4 Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-103 : Duty to give inf orma tion and render a id.”
State of Tennessee v. William George Soller, Jr. (Tenn. Crim. App. 2010). “nnotated section 55-10-101(a) provides: The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close to the scene as -28- possible, but shall then return to and in…”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-10-103(a): 1 case
State v. Stacy Williford (Tenn. Crim. App. 1998). “Section 55-10-101(a) provides that drivers of vehicles involved in accidents resulting in injury or death “shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible, but shall then forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the…”
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