A person is guilty of criminal impersonation, accident related, when after being in a motor vehicle accident involving serious physical injury or death to any person:

(1) A driver knowingly pretends to have been someone other than the driver of the vehicle the person was operating; or

(2) Any person knowingly pretends to have been a driver of 1 of the vehicles involved in the accident.

Attorney's Note

Under the Delaware Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class G felonyup to 2 years
For details, see Del. Code Ann.tit. 11, § 4205

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Criminal impersonation, accident related, is a class G felony. The driving privileges of anyone convicted of violating paragraph (1) of this section shall be suspended by the Division of Motor Vehicles for a period of 2 years.

68 Del. Laws, c. 195, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;