New policy regarding police responses to motor vehicle accidents.
It appears that the strain that the coronavirus pandemic has placed on the City of New York has prompted the NYPD to come up with a new policy regarding police responses to motor vehicle accidents.
According to a Daily News article, a memo recently distributed by the NYPD indicates that police officers will no longer respond to 911 calls for “minor” car accidents. While it appears that police will still respond to major car crashes involving deaths and those involving large vehicles (buses/trucks), if there are no major injuries reported during the 911 call, the police will not respond and the caller will instead be directed to “file their own reports and send the information to the Department of Motor Vehicles.”
Read more here: https://rosenbergfirm.com/nypd-policy-regarding-car-accidents/
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