Chap. 58.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 48 of the “Virginia Motor
Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act” relating to reports of accidents. {H 9]

Approved February 28, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section forty-eight of the “Virginia Motor Vehicle
Satety Responsibility Act” be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Section 48. All accident reports made by investigating officers
shall be for the confidential use of the division and of other State
and Federal agencies for accident prevention purposes and shall not
be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of any
accident. but the division shall disclose from the reports, upon re-
quest of any person, the date, time, and location of the accident, and
the names and addresses of the drivers, the owners of the vehicles
involved, the injured persons, the witnesses, and the investigating
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officer, provided, however, that any report of an accident made pur-
suant to sections forty-four, forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven,
hereof, shall be open to the inspection of any person involved or in-
jured in the accident, or as a result thereof, or his attorney ; and pro-
vided, further, that the commissioner shall upon written request of
any such person or attorney furnish a copy of any such report at the
expense of such person or attorney.