IL · jury_instructions
Ill. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 23.05
Definition Of Leaving The Scene Of An Accident Involving Death Or Personal Injury
A person commits the offense of leaving the scene of an accident involving death or
personal injury when he is the driver of a vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident resulting
in death or personal injury to any person and, with knowledge that an accident has occurred, he
[(fails to immediately stop his vehicle at the scene of the accident) (fails to stop as close to the
scene of the accident as possible without obstructing traffic more than necessary and forthwith
return to the scene of the accident )] and remain there until he has performed the duty to give
information and render aid.
Provenance
- Source
- illinoiscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2026-08-19
- Content hash
85965721ef87facb1de788c5941addfec49a565aa5fdcebe53a7237590c2c4bf
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.