§ 14-266. Accident reports confidential.  


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  • All required accident reports and supplemental reports shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the Police Department except that the department may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when such identity is not otherwise known or when such person denies his presence at such accident. No report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except that the department shall furnish upon demand of any person who has, or claims to have made such a report, or upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the Police Department solely to provide a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirement that such a report be made to the department.

(Code 1993, § 13-7.10)