§ 603. Accidents; police authorities and coroners to report. * 1.
Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in injury
to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or
cause the same to be investigated, and report the matter to the
commissioner forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the
accident is made to the police officer or judicial officer within five
days after such accident. Every coroner, or other official performing
like functions, shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with
respect to all deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle or
motorcycle accidents. Such report shall include information on the
width and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and semitrailers, which
are in excess of ninety-five inches in width or thirty-four feet in
length and which are involved in such accidents, whether such accident
took place in a work area and whether it was being operated with an
overweight or overdimension permit. Such report shall distinctly
indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable restraint
system inflated and deployed. Nothing contained in this subdivision
shall be deemed to preclude a police officer from reporting any other
accident which, in the judgment of such police officer, would be
required to be reported to the commissioner by the operator of a vehicle
pursuant to section six hundred five of this article.

* NB Effective until July 11, 2025

* 1. Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in
injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this chapter or pursuant to the provisions of sections
twelve hundred forty or twelve hundred forty-one of this chapter
involving a bicycle with electric assist or pursuant to the provisions
of sections twelve hundred eighty-seven or twelve hundred eighty-eight
of this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or cause the
same to be investigated, and report the matter to the commissioner
forthwith; provided, however, that the report of the accident is made to
the police officer or judicial officer within five days after such
accident. Every coroner, or other official performing like functions,
shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect to all
deaths found to have been the result of motor vehicle, motorcycle,
electric scooter, or bicycle with electric assist accidents. Such report
shall include information regarding the type or types of vehicles
involved, including passenger motor vehicles, commercial motor vehicles,
motorcycles, limited use motorcycles, off-highway motorcycles, electric
scooters, bicycles with electric assist and/or bicycles. Such report
shall include information on the width and length of trucks, tractors,
trailers and semitrailers, which are in excess of ninety-five inches in
width or thirty-four feet in length and which are involved in such
accidents, whether such accident took place in a work area and whether
it was being operated with an overweight or overdimension permit. Such
report shall distinctly indicate and include information as to whether
the inflatable restraint system inflated and deployed. Nothing contained
in this subdivision shall be deemed to preclude a police officer from
reporting any other accident which, in the judgment of such police
officer, would be required to be reported to the commissioner by the
operator of a vehicle pursuant to section six hundred five of this
article.

* NB Effective July 11, 2025

2. In addition to the requirements of subdivision one of this section,
every police officer or judicial officer to whom an accident shall have
been reported involving a commercial vehicle as defined in either
subdivision four of section five hundred one-a or subdivision one of
section five hundred nine-p of this chapter shall immediately
investigate the facts, or cause the same to be investigated and report
the matter to the commissioner forthwith, provided that the report of
the accident is made to the police officer or judicial officer within
five days after such accident, whenever such accident has resulted in
(i) a vehicle being towed from the accident scene as the result of
incurring disabling damage, (ii) a fatality, or (iii) any individual
being transported to a medical facility to receive treatment as the
result of physical injury sustained in the accident.