Closed consultation

New ways to report road accidents to the police

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 30 January 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

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Summary

Proposal to allow additional ways to report road traffic accidents to the police.

This consultation ran from
11am on 30 January 2018 to 11:45pm on 24 April 2018

Consultation description

At the moment if you need to report a road traffic accident you must do so in person at a police station or to a police constable.

This proposals in this consultation would allow police forces to offer drivers the option of submitting accident reports by other methods.

The proposals would require changes to Section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Documents

Reporting road accidents to the police

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Published 30 January 2018