§ 3747 of the PA motor Vehicle Code requires the driver or owner of a vehicle involved in a PA accident to make report to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Even if the police do not investigate an accident, the driver of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in the PA accident shall, within five days of the PA accident, forward a written report of the PA accident to PennDot.    

The PennDot PA Accident Reporting Form can be found here: PA Drivers Accident Report.pdf

Unfortunately, in a PA personal injury case, this accident report cannot be used in a trial as evidence of the PA accident.

If you are involved in a Pennsylvania car accident, you have a duty report the PA accident by the quickest means of communication to a local police station if the PA car accident involves: injury to or death of any person or damage to any vehicle involved to the extent that it cannot be driven under its own power.

Pennsylvania law also says that if the driver of any vehicle that collides an unattended vehicle resulting in any damage to the other vehicle or property shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the PA accident or as close thereto as possible and shall then either locate and notify the operator or owner of the damaged vehicle or other property.

If the owner or driver of the other vehicle is unavailable, this information should be attached to the damaged vehicle or other property. You must also promptly notify the nearest police.

The author of this Law Blog, Bucks County PA & Mercer County, NJ criminal attorney, Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. of Saile & Saile LLP, Attorneys-at-Law practices both New Jersey and Pennsylvania criminal, traffic violations, and DUI/DWI/DAI law. Check out our website for DUI penalties. We handle all NJ Municipal Court cases including DUI in the following NJ Municipal Courts: Hopewell Township, Ewing Township, Trenton, Lawrence Township, Hamilton, Pennington, and other Mercer County, Burlington County, and Camden County, NJ courts. We also handle lower bucks county DUI and traffic violation cases in the following towns: Bensalem, Southampton, Richboro, Newtown, Levittown, Langhorne, Doylestown, Warminster, Trevose, Feasterville, Warrington, Bristol, Fallsington, Morrisville, Yardley, New Hope, Holland, Washington Crossing, PA, and other Bucks County courts. We handle DUI cases in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery County, PA. We are located just outside of Philadelphia in lower Bucks County.