A person is guilty of criminal impersonation, accident related, when after being in a motor vehicle accident involving serious physical injury or death to any person:
(1) A driver knowingly pretends to have been someone other than the driver of the vehicle the person was operating; or
(2) Any person knowingly pretends to have been a driver of 1 of the vehicles involved in the accident.
Criminal impersonation, accident related, is a class G felony. The driving privileges of anyone convicted of violating paragraph (1) of this section shall be suspended by the Division of Motor Vehicles for a period of 2 years.