Failure to perform duties of driver to injured persons
ORS > Vehicle Code > Collisions > 811.705
(1) F(c): A driver of a vehicle who knows or has reason to believe that the driver's vehicle was involved in a collision commits the offense of failure to perform the duties of a driver to injured persons if the driver's vehicle has been in a collision that results in injury or death to a person and the driver does not perform all of the following duties:
(a) Immediately stop at, or as close as possible to, collision scene & reasonably investigate what vehicle hit. Stop shouldn't obstruct traffic more than necessary
(b) Remain at scene until fulfilled all requirements under this subsection
(c) Give other driver, surviving passenger or anyone injured in collision:
(A) The driver's name and address, the name and address of the owner of the driver's vehicle and the name and address of any other occupants of the driver's vehicle; and AND
(B) If the driver's vehicle is a motor vehicle, the registration number of the motor vehicle, the name of the insurance carrier covering the motor vehicle, the insurance policy number of the insurance policy insuring the motor vehicle and the phone number of the insurance carrier.
(d) Upon request and if available, exhibit and give to the persons injured and to the occupant of or person attending any vehicle damaged the number of any document issued as official evidence of driving privileges granted to the driver.
(e) Render to any person injured in the collision reasonable assistance, including the conveying, or the making of arrangements for the conveying, of an injured person to a physician, surgeon or hospital for medical or surgical treatment, if it is apparent that such treatment is necessary or if such conveying is requested by any injured person.
(f) Remain at the scene of a collision until a police officer has arrived and has received the required information, if all persons required to be given information under paragraph (c) of this subsection are killed in the collision or are unconscious or otherwise incapable of receiving the information. The requirement of this paragraph to remain at the scene of a collision until a police officer arrives does not apply to a driver who needs immediate medical care, who needs to leave the scene in order to secure medical care for another person injured in the collision or who needs to leave the scene in order to report the collision to the authorities, as long as the driver who leaves takes reasonable steps to return to the scene or to contact the nearest police officer.
(g) If the driver discovers only after leaving the scene of the collision that the driver's <a class='DefinitionLink' href='/php/definitionDisplay.php?cat=ORS&l=Vehicle801.590'>vehicle</a> may have been involved in a collision that resulted in injury or death to any person, shall as soon as reasonably possible make a good faith effort to comply with the requirements of this subsection. The driver shall immediately contact 9-1-1 and provide to the dispatcher any requested information described in paragraph (c) of this subsection and the location and approximate time of the collision.
(3)(a) F(c): Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), the offense described in this section, failure to perform the duties of a driver to injured persons, is a Class C felony and is applicable on any premises open to the public
(b) F(b): Failure to perform the duties of a driver to injured persons is a Class B felony if a person suffers serious physical injury as defined in ORS 161.015 or dies as a result of the collision.
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