2006 Ohio Revised Code - [4549.02.1] 4549.021.Stopping after accident involving injury to persons or property.

[§ 4549.02.1] § 4549.021. Stopping after accident involving injury to persons or property.
 

(A)  In case of accident or collision resulting in injury or damage to persons or property upon any public or private property other than public roads or highways, due to the driving or operation thereon of any motor vehicle, the person driving or operating the motor vehicle, having knowledge of the accident or collision, shall stop, and, upon request of the person injured or damaged, or any other person, shall give that person the driver's or operator's name and address, and, if the driver or operator is not the owner, the name and address of the owner of that motor vehicle, together with the registered number of that motor vehicle, and, if available, exhibit the driver's or operator's driver's or commercial driver's license. 
 

If the owner or person in charge of the damaged property is not furnished such information, the driver of the motor vehicle involved in the accident or collision, within twenty-four hours after the accident or collision, shall forward to the police department of the city or village in which the accident or collision occurred or if it occurred outside the corporate limits of a city or village to the sheriff of the county in which the accident or collision occurred the same information required to be given to the owner or person in control of the damaged property and give the date, time, and location of the accident or collision. 
 

If the accident or collision is with an unoccupied or unattended motor vehicle, the operator who collides with the motor vehicle shall securely attach the information required to be given in this section, in writing, to a conspicuous place in or on the unoccupied or unattended motor vehicle. 

(B)  Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the violation results in serious physical harm to a person, failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident is a felony of the fifth degree. If the violation results in the death of a person, failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident is a felony of the third degree. The court, in addition to any other penalties provided by law, shall impose upon the offender a class five suspension of the offender's driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, probationary license, or nonresident operating privilege from the range specified in division (A)(5) of section 4510.02 of the Revised Code. No judge shall suspend the first six months of suspension of an offender's license, permit, or privilege required by this division. 
 

HISTORY: 130 v S 312 (Eff 9-30-63); 131 v 1132 (Eff 11-5-65); 143 v H 381. Eff 7-1-89; 149 v S 123, § 1, eff. 1-1-04; 150 v H 50, § 4, eff. 1-1-04.
 

The effective date is set by section 6 of H.B. 50. 

See provisions, § 5 of S.B. 123 (149 v  - ), following RC § 4501.01. 

 

Effect of Amendments

S.B. 123, Acts 2002, effective January 1, 2004, redesignated former introductory paragraph as (A), and made minor stylistic and gender neutral changes; and added (B). 

H.B. 50, Acts 2003, effective January 1, 2004, in (B), deleted "or death" following "physical harm," and inserted " If the violation results in the death of a person, failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident is a felony of the third degree."