§ 42-4-1610 — Reports by interested parties confidential

All accident reports
and supplemental reports required by law to be made by any driver, owner, or
person involved in any accident shall be without prejudice to the individual so
reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the department; except that the
department may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when such
identity is not otherwise known or when such person denies his or her presence at
such accident. Except as provided in section 42-7-504 (2), no such report shall be
used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident; except that
the department shall furnish, upon demand of any person who has, or claims to
have, made such a report or upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a
specified accident report has or has not been made to the department solely to
prove a compliance or failure to comply with the requirement that such a report be
made to the department. This section shall not be construed to mean that reports of
investigation or other reports made by sheriffs, police officers, coroners, or other
peace officers shall be confidential, but the same shall be public records and shall
be subject to the provisions of section 42-1-206.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2403, � 1, effective January 1, 1995.