Duty to notify, make accident report
130(1)The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of $2,000 or more shall immediately by the quickest means of communication available to the driver give notice of such accident and his name and address and the name and address of the owner of the vehicle to the local police department, if such accident occurred within the limits of a municipality or region as defined in the
Police Act, otherwise to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and, upon the request of a member of the local police department or of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, shall make an accident report giving all the information required by the registrar on the form for accident reports as provided for by section 133 whether by completing the form himself or by verbally supplying the information required therein.
130(2)On the hearing of an information charging a failure to comply with a provision of subsection (1), a document that purports to be a certificate of a person in charge of the police department or office of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to which the notice was required to be given to the effect that no notice in the manner or within the time required was given to the department or office, as the case may be, by a person by the name of the person charged shall be admissible in evidence without proof of the signature and shall be
prima facie proof that the person charged failed to comply with the provisions as charged.
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