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    SECTION 5217

    "Hit and run" causes of action

    Insurance (ISC) CHAPTER 28, ARTICLE 52

    § 5217. "Hit and run" causes of action. The protection provided by
    this article shall not apply to any cause of action by a qualified
    person arising out of a motor vehicle accident occurring in this state
    against a person whose identity is unascertainable, unless the bodily
    injury to the qualified person arose out of physical contact of the
    motor vehicle causing the injury with the qualified person or with a
    motor vehicle which the qualified person was occupying (meaning in or
    upon or entering into or alighting from) at the time of the accident.