Walk It Through: The Scrape
Stop and give the information, a false report as a class B misdemeanor, and what the classes carry.
A driver backing out of a grocery store spot scrapes a parked car, and no one is around.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One parking lot and one scrape. Injury crashes, insurance, and a civil claim for the damage are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Leaving the sceneLeaving an accident causing injury, death or damage to someone else's property without giving name, residence, registration and license number to the other party or an officer. A class A misdemeanor in general.
- False reportKnowingly giving false information to implicate another person, or making a false report of an offense or an emergency. A class B misdemeanor.
- Class D misdemeanorThe lowest misdemeanor class, carrying a fine of up to five hundred dollars and no term of imprisonment in the table.
- InfractionAn offense carrying a fine of up to four hundred dollars.