S 7610: Requires police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for the parties to the accident.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7610 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring police reports of traffic accidents to include insurance information for the parties to the accident The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 603 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 1. Every police or judicial officer to whom an accident resulting in 5 injury to a person shall have been reported, pursuant to the foregoing 6 provisions of this chapter or pursuant to the provisions of sections 7 twelve hundred forty or twelve hundred forty-one of this chapter involv- 8 ing a bicycle with electric assist or pursuant to the provisions of 9 sections twelve hundred eighty-seven or twelve hundred eighty-eight of 10 this chapter, shall immediately investigate the facts, or cause the same 11 to be investigated, and report the matter to the commissioner forthwith; 12 provided, however, that the report of the accident is made to the police 13 officer or judicial officer within five days after such accident. Every 14 coroner, or other official performing like functions, shall likewise 15 make a report to the commissioner with respect to all deaths found to 16 have been the result of motor vehicle, motorcycle, electric scooter, or 17 bicycle with electric assist accidents. Such report shall include infor- 18 mation regarding the type or types of vehicles involved, including 19 passenger motor vehicles, commercial motor vehicles, motorcycles, limit- 20 ed use motorcycles, off-highway motorcycles, electric scooters, bicycles 21 with electric assist and/or bicycles. Such report shall include informa- 22 tion on the width and length of trucks, tractors, trailers and semi- 23 trailers, which are in excess of ninety-five inches in width or thirty- 24 four feet in length and which are involved in such accidents, whether EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09150-01-5 
 S. 7610 2 1 such accident took place in a work area and whether it was being oper- 2 ated with an overweight or overdimension permit. Such report shall 3 distinctly indicate and include information as to whether the inflatable 4 restraint system inflated and deployed. Such report shall distinctly 5 indicate and include information concerning the applicable insurance 6 policies of each party to the accident. Nothing contained in this subdi- 7 vision shall be deemed to preclude a police officer from reporting any 8 other accident which, in the judgment of such police officer, would be 9 required to be reported to the commissioner by the operator of a vehicle 10 pursuant to section six hundred five of this article. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 12 if chapter 196 of the laws of 2024 shall not have taken effect on or 13 before such date then section one of this act shall take effect on the 14 same date and in the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2024 15 takes effect. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 16 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 17 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 18 on or before such effective date.