For Goodness sake give her your insurance information then leave!

Friday, 27 April 2007

In Stadnisky v. State, A06A2497, March 8, 2007, the Georgia Court of Appeals held that a driver has a duty to stay at an accident scene by statute until identification and insurance information is exchanged and it does not matter if a police investigation is unconstitutional as being made without reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal wrong doing until the insurance and identification information is exchanged.  Further, the Court held that the State does not have to prove that a driver did not drink alcohol within the two hours after the accident prior to the police arriving if there is no reasonable circumstantial evidence that he did drink.  The morale of this story is if you have been drinking and get in an accident exchange id and insurance and politely leave.

 

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