§ 6-46. Accident reports are confidential.

(a)

All required accident reports and supplemental reports shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the police department; however, the department may, upon written request of any person involved in an accident or upon written request of the representative of his estate, his surviving spouse or one or more of his surviving next of kin, disclose to such requester or his legal counsel or a representative of his insurer any information contained in such report except the parties' version of the accident as set out in the written report filed by such parties, or may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when such identity is not otherwise known or when such person denies his presence at such accident. No such report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section. However, the police department shall furnish, upon demand of any person who has, or claims to have, made such a report or, upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the department solely to prove a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirement that such a report be made to the department.

(b)

The report required by section 6-44 may be used in proving uninsured status of the owner and operator of a vehicle in any action to enforce a claim under the uninsured motorist provisions of an automobile liability policy, but only as provided in Miss. Code Ann. 1972, Section 13-1-124.

(Code 1963, § 25-35)

State law reference

State and municipal accident reports are confidential, Miss. Code Ann. 1972, §§ 63-3-417, 63-3-423.