Crashes
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10 offenses
Damage to unattended vehicle/property — fail duties
Florida Statute § 316.063
When a crash damages an unattended vehicle or other property, the driver must stop and either find and notify the owner/operator or securely leave a conspicuous written notice with the driver's name, address, and registration number. The driver must also notify the nearest authorized police office without unnecessary delay; leaving a note alone does not complete the duty. Document damage, the unattended status, and which duty was omitted. A qualifying automated-vehicle reporting exception applies; merely failing to clear traffic is a separate civil provision.
Failure to give information/render aid
Florida Statute § 316.062
After a crash involving injury, death, or damage to attended property, the driver must provide name, address, and vehicle registration number; show an available license on request; and provide reasonable assistance to injured people, including arranging treatment when apparently needed or requested. If no recipient can receive the information and no officer is present, the driver must report to the nearest authorized police office after completing other duties. Compelled reporting does not override self-incrimination protections. The statute has a qualifying automated-vehicle reporting exception. This section itself is a civil nonmoving violation.
Failure to report qualifying crash
Florida Statute § 316.065(1)
A driver must immediately report a crash by the quickest communication method when it causes injury, death, or apparent property damage of at least $2,000. Notify municipal police within a municipality; otherwise notify the sheriff or nearest FHP office/station. Document the reporting trigger, opportunity to report, and failure to do so. This entry concerns the driver's civil duty in subsection (1), not the criminal repair-shop provision. Qualifying automated vehicles are excepted when the owner reports or the vehicle can alert law enforcement.
False crash report/information
Florida Statute § 316.067
A person violates this section by giving false information in an oral, electronic, or written report required by chapter 316 while knowing, or having reason to believe, it is false. Identify the required report, the specific false statement, the accurate facts, and the evidence of knowledge or reason to believe. An unexplained discrepancy or good-faith mistake alone does not establish that mental state. The section applies to required reports, not every inaccurate roadside statement.
Leaving scene crash involving attended vehicle/property
Florida Statute § 316.061
After a crash causing only damage to an attended vehicle or other attended property, the driver must immediately stop at or near the scene, return if necessary, and remain until completing the information and aid duties in §316.062. Establish that the property was attended and identify the unperformed duty. Unattended property is addressed in §316.063; injury or death invokes §316.027. Moving a damaged vehicle to avoid unnecessarily obstructing traffic is not itself leaving the scene.
Leaving scene crash involving death
Florida Statute § 316.027(2)(c)
A driver involved in a fatal crash on public or private property must stop and remain to provide identification and reasonable aid under §316.062. Document the willful failure to stop/remain, awareness of the crash, and the death caused by the crash; fault for causing the crash is distinct from the duty to remain. This is the fatal-crash track, with a four-year mandatory minimum subject to the statutory departure rule for non-DUI cases. The motorsports-event/closed-course exception applies.
Leaving scene crash involving injury
Florida Statute § 316.027(2)(a)
A driver involved in a crash on public or private property that injures another person must stop at or as near the scene as possible and remain to provide identification and reasonable aid under §316.062. This track requires a willful failure to stop/remain and an injury that does not meet the serious-bodily-injury definition. Document the driver's awareness of the crash, the injury, and the duty not performed. Separate the failure to move an obstructing vehicle from leaving the scene. The motorsports-event/closed-course exception applies.
Leaving scene crash involving serious bodily injury
Florida Statute § 316.027(2)(b)
A driver involved in a crash on public or private property must stop and remain to provide identification and reasonable aid when someone suffers serious bodily injury. Serious bodily injury means a substantial risk of death, serious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of a bodily member or organ. Document the willful failure to stop/remain, the driver's awareness of the crash, and medical facts supporting that injury level. The motorsports-event/closed-course exception applies.
Leaving the Scene of a Crash
Florida Statute § 316.027 / 316.061 / 316.063
Determine whether the crash involved attended property only, unattended property, injury, serious bodily injury, or death. The driver’s stop/remain, identification, aid, and reporting duties differ by track. For unattended property, notifying the owner or leaving a proper note must be followed by police notification. For attended property/injury, remaining and completing §316.062 duties are central. Document awareness, actual damage/injury, and the specific omitted duty; moving a vehicle to clear traffic is not automatically leaving the scene. Check statutory automated-vehicle and motorsports exceptions where applicable.
Vehicular Homicide
Florida Statute § 782.071
Vehicular homicide requires operation of a motor vehicle in a reckless manner likely to cause death or great bodily harm, causing a human being’s death or an unborn child’s death through injury to the mother. Ordinary negligence or a fatal outcome alone is insufficient; document the dangerous manner of driving and causation. The first-degree track requires specified failure-to-give-information/aid facts with crash awareness, or a qualifying prior homicide/manslaughter conviction. Impairment is not an element of this offense.