Section 100.025. Accident involvement.

 

(1)  A vehicle or person shall be considered to have been involved in an accident if any of the following conditions are met:

(a) The person is injured by an accident.

(b) The person or the vehicle's operator commits some act that contributes to cause an accident, regardless of physical contact.

(c) The vehicle is damaged in an accident.

(d) The vehicle makes contact with any other person or property and causes damage.

(e) The vehicle is damaged by a failure of a mechanical or electrical system resulting in fire or accident when it is in use primarily for moving persons or property, including the vehicle itself, from one place to another and is in motion, or in readiness for motion, and is unattended and not legally parked in a designated parking area.

(f) Property, parts or debris falls from the vehicle and causes an accident.

(g) A vehicle contacts or avoids debris or property on a roadway that has fallen from another vehicle or is not ordinarily found in a roadway, and causes an accident.

(h) The vehicle moves without an operator controlling its movements and causes an accident.

(i) One or more doors or any part of the load of a parked vehicle extends into an adjoining space intended for vehicular travel and an accident occurs as a result of that extension.

(2)  Except as provided in sub. (1) (i) , the operator of a vehicle shall be considered to not have been involved in an accident if the vehicle was legally parked at the time of any damage to the vehicle.

CR 01-156 : cr. Register October 2005 No. 598 , eff. 11-1-05.

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Accidents may be the result of "acts of God," or negligence or intentional acts. s. Trans 100.02 (1) . Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1