Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

S.C. Code Ann. § 56-5-1280

When driver unable to report, other occupant or owner shall report

Known as the Uniform Act

The act spans §§ 56-5-10 to 56-5-990 (418 sections).

1962 Code SECTION 46-328; 1952 Code SECTION 46-328; 1949 (46) 466.

Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making an immediate or a written report of an accident as required in Section 56-5-1260 and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of making a report, such occupant shall make or cause to be made such report not made by the driver. Whenever the driver is so physically incapable of making a written report as required in Section 56-5-1270 and such driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in such accident shall within five days after learning of the accident make such report not made by the driver.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.