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Walk It Through: The Fender Bender

Off the freeway first, the information and the insurer, and the quickest means.

A driver rear ends another car on a metropolitan freeway. Both cars can still be driven, and no one seems hurt.

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

One rear end collision on a freeway. The note for an unattended vehicle, the felony grades, and the officer's report 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.