After a crash — New Jersey Permit Test
After a crash on the New Jersey permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
New Jersey law requires a driver to notify the police of a crash involving injury, death, or vehicle or property damage.
The police report is the record everyone else works from, including your own insurer.
New Jersey law requires motorists to notify the police of crashes where there is injury, death, or vehicle or property damage.
Where damage exceeds $500 or somebody is hurt, a driver sends a written report to the MVC within 10 days if no police report was filed.
Without a police report there is no record at all, and the state gives ten days to make one.
Send a written report to the MVC within 10 days if no police report is filed.
The written crash report to the MVC is required where property damage is more than $500 or there is personal injury.
Below that the state does not want the paperwork. Above it, somebody will need the record.
When damage to the property is more than $500 or there is personal injury
If somebody has been killed nobody moves the body until the police or an ambulance arrives.
Where somebody came to rest is evidence, and moving them can make an injury worse.
If someone has been killed, do not move the body or permit anyone to move the body until the police or ambulance arrives.
On the test
When must a New Jersey driver notify the police of a crash?
When there is injury, death or damage. The police report is the record everyone else works from, including your own insurer. New Jersey Driver Manual, p.111: “New Jersey law requires motorists to notify the police of crashes where there is injury, death, or vehicle or property damage.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against New Jersey Driver Manual, published by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.