The Florida Senate

316.068  Accident report forms.--

(1)  The department shall prepare and, upon request, supply to police departments, sheriffs, and other appropriate agencies or individuals forms for accident reports as required in this chapter, suitable with respect to the persons required to make such reports and the purposes to be served. The form must call for sufficiently detailed information to disclose, with reference to a vehicle accident, the cause and conditions then existing and the persons and vehicles involved. Every accident report form must call for the policy numbers of liability insurance and the names of carriers covering any vehicle involved in an accident required to be reported by this chapter.

(2)  Every accident report required to be made in writing must be made on the appropriate form approved by the department and must contain all the information required therein unless not available. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, an accident report produced electronically by a law enforcement officer must, at a minimum, contain the same information as is called for on those forms approved by the department.

History.--s. 1, ch. 71-135; s. 2, ch. 74-201; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 11, ch. 96-350.