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Walk It Through: The Fender Bender

Stop and stay, license and registration, and 10 days to the Motor Vehicle Commission.

At a four way stop two cars collide, and a passenger is hurt.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One crash at a four way stop. Property damage only penalties, repeat offenses, and the license loss in detail 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.