Accident reports.
Denver Revised Municipal Code § 42-25
in effectSec. 42-25. - Accident reports.
Whenever any person is physically injured or any property is injured, damaged or destroyed, by an accident occurring in or on any of the sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys, parks or other public ways and places of the city, it shall be the duty of the police officer, within whose district or upon whose beat such accident shall have happened, and also of the detective who may be in that vicinity or be detailed for service in that neighborhood, to investigate such accident and ascertain the cause of the same, and obtain the name and residence of the person injured, or owning the property injured or damaged, and all the circumstances of the accident, with the names and places of residence of all persons having knowledge of the occurrence, and of the cause resulting in the accident or damage, and make forthwith a report of the same to the chief of police.
(Code 1950, § 211.7)
Source: City and County of Denver, Revised Municipal Code and Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/co/denver/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIREMUCO_CH42PO_ARTIIPODE_DIV1GE_S42-25ACREFetched: 10/27/2026
