---
slug: motor-vehicle-accident
title: "A motor vehicle accident"
kind: event
status: published
hash: 0cdcb97a7546857e23df8ce0b228875a78a46870f52b301c99ceca8eea6e3e39
created: 2026-10-05T02:15:18.696Z
updated: 2026-10-05T02:15:18.696Z
summary: "A collision on a street or highway, or on private property. In California it can start two reports a driver owes and two kinds of claim, each with its own deadline."
tags: []
above: ["[[vertical-property-casualty-insurance-claims]]"]
below: ["[[california-dmv-sr-1-accident-report]]", "[[california-police-accident-report]]"]
adjacent: []
nested: []
---
# A motor vehicle accident

*A collision on a street or highway, or on private property. In California it can start two reports a driver owes and two kinds of claim, each with its own deadline.*

A collision on a street or highway, or on private property. In California it can start two reports a driver owes and two kinds of claim, each with its own deadline.

## At a glance

| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Event |
| Where it applies | us, us-ca |
| Version | 1 |

An event is not a form. It is the thing that happened, and the map hangs off it everything it can start. Here that is two reports (to the police when anyone is hurt, to the DMV when anyone is hurt or the damage is over $1,000) and two claims (for the car, and for the person). The two claims are nested in each other: the article about the car carries the article about the person inside it, and the other way round, because a person filing one usually has the other.


## Facts

```json
{
  "procedure": {
    "schema": "procedure/1",
    "procedure_id": "motor-vehicle-accident",
    "type": "event",
    "status": "published",
    "title": "A motor vehicle accident",
    "summary": "A collision on a street or highway, or on private property. In California it can start two reports a driver owes and two kinds of claim, each with its own deadline.",
    "jurisdiction_ids": [
      "us",
      "us-ca"
    ],
    "parent_ids": [
      "vertical-property-casualty-insurance-claims"
    ],
    "may_cause_ids": [
      "california-vehicle-damage-claim",
      "california-bodily-injury-claim"
    ],
    "may_trigger_ids": [
      "california-police-accident-report",
      "california-dmv-sr-1-accident-report"
    ],
    "article_projection": {
      "register": "Event",
      "description": "What a motor vehicle accident starts in California: the reports a driver owes, and the claims for the car and for the person, each with its clock.",
      "body_md": "An event is not a form. It is the thing that happened, and the map hangs off it everything it can start. Here that is two reports (to the police when anyone is hurt, to the DMV when anyone is hurt or the damage is over $1,000) and two claims (for the car, and for the person). The two claims are nested in each other: the article about the car carries the article about the person inside it, and the other way round, because a person filing one usually has the other."
    },
    "provenance": {
      "created_by": "Claude Code session for the Universal Procedure Graph",
      "method": "official pages, the form and the codes, read on the date shown; quotations found word for word"
    },
    "version": 1
  }
}
```

---

**above:** [[vertical-property-casualty-insurance-claims]]

**below:** [[california-dmv-sr-1-accident-report]], [[california-police-accident-report]]