Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 270.35 Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the
first degree.
A person is guilty of unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree when he or she commits the offense of unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree, as defined in section 270.25 of this article, and as a result of such conduct a police officer or a third person is killed.
Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree is a class D felony.
Committing third-degree unlawful fleeing under § 270.25 and thereby causing a police officer or another person to be killed is unlawful fleeing in the first degree, 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.