The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting
in injury to, or death of, any person, or damage to a property or
vehicle when the apparent total exceeds $1,000, shall within five
days make a complete report in writing of such accident to the Police
Headquarters in this Town. A driver who has been incapacitated as
a result of such accident, and to such an extent as to make reporting
impossible or unfavorable to his recovery, shall not be required to
report such accident until he has recovered sufficiently to be able
to do so. The report shall be made on a form furnished by the Police
Department, copies of which shall be available at the police station.
Compliance with this section, however, shall not relieve such driver
from the additional responsibility of reporting to the Registrar of
Motor Vehicles any accident in which a person is killed or injured.
If any vehicle is found upon any street or highway in violation
of any provisions of these rules and orders and the identity of the
driver cannot be determined, the owner or the person in whose name
such vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for
such violations.
These rules are adopted with the intent that each of them shall
have force and effect separately and independently of every other
except insofar as by express reference or necessary implication any
rule or any part of a rule is made depend upon another rule or part
thereof.
The provisions of these rules, so far as they are the same in
effect as those of any existing valid rules, orders or regulations
heretofore made by the Select Board of Groton relative to, or in connection
with, official signs, lights, markings, signal systems or devices,
shall be construed as a continuation thereof; but all existing rules,
orders and regulations so made for the regulation of vehicles are
hereby expressly repealed. This repeal, however, shall not affect
any punishment or penalty imposed or any complaint or prosecutions
pending at the time of the passage hereof for an offense committed
under any of the said valid rules, orders or regulations hereby repealed.