Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 176.80 Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree.
A person is guilty of staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree when he or she commits the offense of staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree and thereby causes serious physical injury or death to another person, other than a participant in such offense.
Staging a motor vehicle accident in the first degree is a class D felony.
A person commits first-degree staging of a motor vehicle accident by committing second-degree staging and thereby causing serious physical injury or death to someone who did not participate in the offense. ★ It is a class D 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.