All crash reports made by investigating officers shall be for the confidential use of the Department and of other state agencies for accident prevention purposes and shall not be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of any accident. If otherwise authorized by law, the Department may disclose from the reports, on request of any person, the date, time, and location of the accident and the names and addresses of the drivers, the owners of the vehicles involved, the injured persons, the witnesses, and one investigating officer. A law-enforcement agency may release nonpersonally identifiable vehicle information from crash reports to a contracted service provider.
Code 1950, § 46-409; 1952, c. 544; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-409; 1986, c. 639; 1989, c. 727; 2014, cc. 77, 803; 2024, cc. 79, 80.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
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cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 1993–2024 · leading case:
Acuar v. Letourneau, 531 S.E.2d 316 (Va. 2000).
Acuar v. Letourneau, 531 S.E.2d 316 (Va. 2000).
· cites it 8× “We awarded Acuar this appeal on two assignments of error: (1) that the circuit court erred in allowing repeated references to a police accident report in violation of Code § 46.2-379, and (2) that the circuit court erred in allowing those portions of Letoumeau’s medical expenses…”
Cherry v. D.S. Nash Constr. Co., 475 S.E.2d 794 (Va. 1996).
· cites it 14× “The trial court ruled that, under Code § 46.2-379, the field notes were inadmissible because *244 they were incorporated into the accident report that Trooper Davidson prepared and filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).”
Galbraith v. Fleming, 427 S.E.2d 187 (Va. 1993).
· cites it 6× “Galbraith contended at trial, as she does on appeal, that Code § 46.2-379 (formerly, Code § 46.1-409) precludes the admission of the diagram into evidence.”
Staton v. King, 62 Va. Cir. 469 (Norfolk Cir. Ct. 2003).
· cites it 6× “Virginia Code § 46.2-379 states that “accident reports made by investigating officers .”
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