2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 75 - VEHICLES
Chapter 37 - Miscellaneous Provisions
3747 - Written report of accident by driver or owner.

     § 3747.  Written report of accident by driver or owner.
        (a)  General rule.--If a police officer does not investigate
     an accident required to be investigated by section 3746
     (relating to immediate notice of accident to police department),
     the driver of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in the
     accident shall, within five days of the accident, forward a
     written report of the accident to the department.
        (b)  Supplemental reports.--The department may require any
     driver of a vehicle involved in an accident of which written
     report must be made as provided in this section to file
     supplemental written reports whenever the original report is
     insufficient in the opinion of the department.
        (c)  Exception for disabled persons.--A written accident
     report is not required under this subchapter from any person who
     is physically incapable of making a report during the period of
     incapacity.
        (d)  Duty of owner if driver disabled.--Whenever the driver
     is physically incapable of making a written report of an
     accident as required in this section and the driver is not the
     owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in
     the accident shall, within five days after the accident, make
     the report not made by the driver.
        (e)  Confidentiality of reports.--All written reports
     required in this section to be forwarded to the department by
     drivers or owners of vehicles involved in accidents shall be
     without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be
     for the confidential use of the department or any other
     governmental agency or their representatives having use for the
     records for accident prevention purposes, except that the
     department shall disclose the identity of a person involved in
     an accident when the identity is not otherwise known or when the
     person denies his presence at the accident and shall disclose
     whether any person or vehicle was covered by a vehicle insurance
     policy and the name of the insurer.
        (f)  Use of reports as evidence.--No accident reports
     forwarded under the provisions of this section shall be used as
     evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an
     accident except that the department shall furnish upon demand of
     any party to the trial, or upon demand of any court, a
     certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has
     not been made to the department in compliance with the law and,
     if the report has been made, the date, time and location of the
     accident, the names and addresses of the drivers and the owners
     of the vehicles involved. The reports may be used as evidence
     when necessary to prosecute charges filed in connection with a
     violation of section 3748 (relating to false reports).
        (g)  Compliance with other laws required.--This section does
     not affect the duty of filing accident reports required by any
     other statute or regulations made thereunder.

        Cross References.  Section 3747 is referred to in section
     3745.1 of this title.