It shall be the duty of the Traffic Division
to receive and properly file all accident reports required to be filed
under this chapter or state law, but all such accident reports shall
be for the confidential use of the Police Department and the City
Traffic Safety Committee, and no such report shall be admissible in
any civil or criminal proceeding other than upon request of any person
making such report or upon request of the court having jurisdiction
to prove a compliance with the laws requiring the making of any such
report.
The Traffic Division shall maintain a suitable
record of all traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions and
complaints in which the same shall be filed alphabetically under the
name of the driver concerned. Said Division shall study the causes
of all accidents.
The Traffic Division shall annually prepare
a traffic report to contain information on traffic matters in the
City as follows:
A. The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons
killed or injured and other pertinent traffic accident data.
B. The number of traffic accidents investigated, the
number of drivers with bad records interrogated and other pertinent
data on the safety activities of the Police.
C. The plans and recommendations of the Division for
future traffic safety activities.