2023 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 42 - VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC (§§ 42-1-101 — 42-21-106)
REGULATION OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC (§§ 42-4-101 — 42-4-2501)
Article 4 - REGULATION OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC (§§ 42-4-101 — 42-4-2501)
Part 16 - ACCIDENTS AND ACCIDENT REPORTS (§§ 42-4-1601 — 42-4-1612)
Section 42-4-1602 - Accident involving damage - duty

• (1) The driver of any vehicle directly involved in an accident resulting only in damage to a vehicle which is driven or attended by any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible but shall immediately return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of such accident, except in the circumstances provided in subsection (2) of this section, until the driver has fulfilled the requirements of section 42-4-1603. Every such stop shall be made without obstructing traffic more than is necessary. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection (1) commits a class 2 misdemeanor traffic offense.

• (2) When an accident occurs on the traveled portion, median, or ramp of a divided highway and each vehicle involved can be safely driven, each driver shall move such driver's vehicle as soon as practicable off the traveled portion, median, or ramp to a frontage road, the nearest suitable cross street, or other suitable location to fulfill the requirements of section 42-4-1603.

L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2400, § 1, effective 1/1/1995.

This section is similar to former § 42-4-1402 as it existed prior to 1994, and the former § 42-4-1602 was relocated to § 42-4-1802 .