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Tennessee Code Title 55. Motor and Other Vehicles § 55-10-115

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The department shall prepare and shall upon request supply to police, coroners, sheriffs and other suitable agencies or individuals, forms for accident reports calling for sufficiently detailed information to disclose with reference to a highway accident the cause, conditions then existing, and the persons and vehicle involved, as provided in § 55-10-111.

(b) The department shall receive accident reports required to be made by this part and may tabulate and analyze those reports and publish annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number, cause and location of highway accidents.

(c) Based upon its findings after this analysis, the department may conduct further necessary detailed research to more fully determine the cause and control of highway accidents. It may further conduct experimental field tests within areas of the state from time to time to prove the practicability of various ideas advanced in traffic control and accident prevention.

(d)(1) Any member of the general assembly may request, in writing, the department to provide a copy of a crash report received pursuant to this part that occurred in the member's district and that resulted in a person's death. The report must be provided to the member within thirty (30) business days after a confirmed death is reported to the department on the crash report.

(2) The written request must include the duration for which the member wishes to receive crash reports, up to three hundred sixty-five (365) days. A member must submit another request after the expiration of the previous request in order to continue receiving crash reports.

(3) A crash report that is subject to an ongoing investigation or court order requiring the information be kept confidential shall not be released under this subsection (d).

(4) The federal Driver Privacy Protection Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 2721-2725), the Uniform Motor Vehicle Records Disclosure Act, compiled in chapter 25 of this title, and any other state or federal law regarding protection of personally identifiable information apply to any report released under this subsection (d).

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