Information regarding collisions.
What do the words driving without due care and attention actually mean? Section 144 MVA says that a person must not drive a motor vehicle on a highway without due care and attention but does not go on to explain what it is. This trial involving a collision that killed a motorcycle rider is one example.
It used to be common knowledge that you must report a collision to police if there is death, injury, aggregate damage over $1,000 for motor vehicles, $800 for motorcycles and $100 for cycles. After changes to the law effective on July 1, 2008 this is no longer the case. Collisions do not have to be reported to police, or anyone else, to fulfil the reporting requirements of the Motor Vehicle Act.
Fortunately for us all, the majority of collisions in British Columbia don't involve injury or death. Rather they leave us feeling foolish and facing a significant dollar amount of property damage. How do you protect yourself in the event of a collision like this, especially since the police may not attend property damage or minor injury crashes?
I was driving through Nanaimo on a day off and approching an intersection showing me a green light. Just as I entered, I heard a loud crash and glanced to my left. One vehicle had attempted a turn across the highway and had gotten into the way of oncoming traffic.
I glanced into my rearview mirror and watched the car cross over the highway behind me and stop in the ditch. What to do now?