You are directly involved in a crash that injures someone. What must you do at the scene before treating your duties there as fulfilled?
Correct answer: Stop at or near the scene, return if needed, and remain to provide required information and reasonable aid.
Stop at the scene or as close as possible and immediately return when necessary. Remain to fulfill identification and reasonable-assistance duties; leaving to report is allowed only under the specified reporting provisions after those duties.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1601 (1), (1.5); section 42-4-1603 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A property-damage-only crash occurs on a divided highway ramp. Every involved vehicle can be driven safely. What should the drivers do as soon as practicable?
Correct answer: Move off the ramp to a suitable nearby location to exchange the required information.
For this safely drivable, property-only crash on a divided highway, move to a frontage road, suitable cross street or other suitable location. Moving out of the traffic area does not remove information or reporting duties.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1602 (1), (2); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
You scrape another occupied car in traffic. Nobody is hurt, but its door is damaged. May you keep driving because the collision caused property damage only?
Correct answer: No, stop and fulfill the required information duties.
Damage to a driven or attended vehicle still triggers the duty to stop and provide information. Avoid obstructing traffic more than necessary, and apply the safe-move rule when its conditions are met.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1602 (1); section 42-4-1603 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
After a crash with an attended vehicle, which set contains the identification information the statute requires you to give the other party?
Correct answer: Your name, address and the registration number of your vehicle.
Give your name, address and the registration number of the vehicle you were driving. License presentation on request and reasonable assistance to injured people are additional duties.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1603 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
At a crash involving damage to an occupied vehicle, the other driver asks to see your driver’s license. What does the information-and-aid provision require?
Correct answer: Show the license when requested by the other driver.
The provision requires exhibiting your license upon request to the person struck or the driver, occupant or attendant of the vehicle involved. It does not require handing it over permanently or disclosing unrelated private information.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1603 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A person is hurt in your crash and clearly needs medical treatment. Which response fits the duty to provide reasonable assistance where practical?
Correct answer: Arrange appropriate medical assistance, such as calling for an ambulance.
Reasonable assistance includes arranging transport for medical treatment when the need is apparent or the injured person requests it. Calling emergency medical help is a practical way to arrange that assistance.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1603 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
After providing the assistance you can, nobody else involved in the crash is able to receive your required information and no police officer is present. What is your next reporting duty?
Correct answer: Immediately report to the nearest authorized police office and provide the required information.
When nobody specified in the rule can receive the information and no officer is present, fulfill the other duties as far as possible and immediately report to the police authority with the required details.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1603 (2); section 42-4-1606 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
You damage a parked, unattended car and can locate its owner nearby. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop, notify the owner, give the required identity and vehicle details, and report as required.
An unattended vehicle is not an exception to crash duties. Stop and notify the owner when you can, provide your name, address and vehicle registration number, and make the required police report.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1604; section 42-4-1606 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
You damage an unattended parked car but cannot locate its owner. What should the securely attached, clearly visible written notice contain?
Correct answer: Your name and address and your vehicle’s registration number.
Secure the notice in a conspicuous place in or on the damaged vehicle with the required identifying details. Leaving a note does not replace the separate duty to report the crash as required.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1604; section 42-4-1606 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
Your crash damages a highway guardrail but no other vehicle. In addition to required police reporting, whom must you notify with your identity and vehicle details?
Correct answer: The road authority responsible for the damaged property.
The highway-fixture rule requires notice to the road authority in charge, including your name, address and vehicle registration number. Reporting to that authority does not cancel the police-reporting duty.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1605; section 42-4-1606 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
An ordinary traffic crash causes about $300 in property damage and no injury. Does the $1,000 figure in the officer-investigation provision exempt the driver from immediate police notice?
Correct answer: No, the driver’s notice duty still applies to property damage.
The driver-notice rule applies to any property damage. The $1,000 provision concerns when an officer may decline an investigation or report; it is not a dollar threshold for the driver’s notification duty.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1606 (1), (4)(b)(I); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
A crash leaves the driver physically unable to give the required immediate notice, but an occupant who was in the car can do so. What must that occupant do?
Correct answer: Give the notice or arrange for it to be given.
When the driver is physically incapable and another occupant can give notice, that occupant must give or arrange the notice the driver cannot provide.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1607 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
After receiving your crash report, the police authority directs you to return to the scene and remain. What does the reporting provision require?
Correct answer: Return immediately and remain until police arrive and complete the investigation.
Follow the authority’s direction to return and remain. The provision connects that duty to police arrival and completion of their investigation, not to when you have finished taking photographs.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1606 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
You believe another driver was completely at fault for a crash you were directly involved in that caused an injury. Does that belief excuse your stop, information and aid duties?
Correct answer: No, those duties apply regardless of your belief about fault.
These scene duties arise from involvement in the crash and its consequences, not from deciding who caused it. Stop, identify yourself and provide reasonable aid as required; fault can be addressed separately.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1601 (1); section 42-4-1603 (1); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
Your ordinary car’s required insurance policy has expired and you have no valid self-insurance certificate. May you drive it on a public highway while arranging renewal?
Correct answer: No, required coverage must already be in force.
Required insurance or a qualifying self-insurance certificate must be in full force while the vehicle is operated. Possessing an old card or intending to renew does not supply current coverage.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1409 (1), (2); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
During a lawful traffic contact, an officer requests proof of your current complying insurance. May you display that evidence on your phone?
Correct answer: Yes, the statute accepts policy evidence displayed on an electronic device.
Colorado accepts electronic evidence of an in-force complying policy or self-insurance certificate. The evidence must show current coverage; the electronic format does not make an expired policy valid.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes 2026, section 42-4-1409 (3)(a), (3)(b); current on September 13, 2026. ↗
