Queensland Consolidated Acts

MOTOR ACCIDENT INSURANCE ACT 1994 - SECT 34

34 Duty to notify accidents to police

(1) A person who proposes to make a claim (including a person acting in a representative capacity) must ensure that appropriate notice of the accident has been given to a police officer.

(2) Appropriate notice of a motor vehicle accident is—

(a) the giving of required particulars under the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 , section 93 (4) ; or

(b) if (and only if) particulars have not been given as required under that section—a notice under this section in a form approved by the commission.

(3) A notice under this section must—

(a) state the intending claimant’s full name, date of birth, residential address and a telephone number at which the claimant can be contacted; and

(b) state the date, time and place of the accident and describe how it happened; and

(c) identify all motor vehicles and drivers involved in the accident (as far as known to the intending claimant); and

(d) state the names and residential addresses of all persons injured in the accident (as far as known to the intending claimant); and

(e) state the names and residential addresses of all persons who witnessed the accident (as far as known to the intending claimant); and

(f) state the general nature of the personal injury to the intending claimant.