CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND REPORTING (§ 56-131)

The Commission shall investigate the cause of any accident on any railroad
which, in its judgment, requires investigation. The Commission shall require
every common carrier by railroad doing business in this Commonwealth to file all
reports required by the Federal Railroad Administration pursuant to the Federal
Accidents Reports Act and regulations issued pursuant thereto to the Commission
at its office in Richmond, Virginia, provided that neither such report nor any
part thereof shall be admitted as evidence in any suit or action for damages
growing out of any matter mentioned in such report.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3737; 1996, cc. 114, 157.