{"id":900,"date":"2015-04-17T16:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boatsmartexam.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=648"},"modified":"2020-05-06T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:28:51","slug":"texas-boat-accident-reporting","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.boatsmartexam.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/texas-boat-accident-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; Boat Accident Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An operator involved in a boating accident is required to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop their boat at the scene.<\/li>\n<li>Render assistance to any person who has been injured or who is in danger so long as they can do so without risking their safety or their passenger&#8217;s safety.<\/li>\n<li>Provide their name, address and boat information in writing to any person who was injured, and to the owner of any property that was damaged as a result of the accident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Accident Reporting<\/h2>\n<p>The following types of accidents must be reported to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Division by the quickest means possible, if any of the following occur as a result of the accident:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A person is killed or disappears from the boat.<\/li>\n<li>A person is injured and requires medical treatment beyond first aid.<\/li>\n<li>Damage to property as a result of the accident totals more than $2,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: Boating accident reports are confidential and are inadmissible in court as evidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamug.edu\/waterfrontops\/Documents\/TPW%20boating%20accident%20form.pdf\"><b>Download a Texas\u2019 Boat Accident Report Form<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[13],"article-tag":[23,83,247,271],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boat Accident Reporting Requirements in Texas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about how and when to report a boat accident in the state of Texas, include where to obtain a boating accident report form and where to submit it.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatsmartexam.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/texas-boat-accident-reporting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boat Accident Reporting Requirements in Texas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about how and when to report a boat accident in the state of Texas, include where to obtain a boating accident report form and where to submit it.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.boatsmartexam.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/texas-boat-accident-reporting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BOATsmart! 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