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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66903</law_id><section_number>46.2-373.1</section_number><catch_line>Report of law-enforcement officer involved in accident</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Titling, Registration and Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Licensure of Drivers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="11">Accident Reports</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Records of Department; when open for inspection; release of privileged information" href="/46.2-208/">46.2-208</a>, any <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer</span>, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Effective July 1, 2026) Definitions" href="/9.1-101/">9.1-101</a>, who is named as a <span class="dictionary">driver</span> in a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> accident on a report submitted to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Report by law-enforcement official investigating accident" href="/46.2-373/">46.2-373</a> shall not have the accident displayed on his driving record if he was driving a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> provided by a <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency in the course of his employment and was operating the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> in the performance of his official duties at the time of such accident. The driving record of such <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officer</span> involved in an accident in the course of his employment shall not contain any information of an accident submitted pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Report by law-enforcement official investigating accident" href="/46.2-373/">46.2-373</a>.</p></section></text><history>2017, cc. 800, 821.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
