Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 176.75 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree.
A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree when, with intent to commit and in furtherance of a fraudulent insurance act, he or she operates a motor vehicle and intentionally causes a collision involving a motor vehicle.
Staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree is a class E felony.
A person commits second-degree staging of a motor vehicle accident by operating a motor vehicle and intentionally causing a motor-vehicle collision, intending to commit and advance a fraudulent insurance act. ★ It is a class E felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.