Whenever a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer involved in an accident is found
upon a highway in the county and is so located as to impede the orderly flow of traffic,
the sheriff may (i) at no cost to the owner or operator, remove such motor vehicle,
trailer or semitrailer from the highway to some point in the vicinity where such motor
vehicle, trailer or semitrailer will not impede the flow of traffic or (ii) have the
vehicle removed to a storage area for safekeeping and shall report the removal to
the department of motor vehicles of the commonwealth and to the owner of the vehicle
as promptly as possible. If the vehicle is removed to a storage area under clause
(ii), the owner shall pay to the parties entitled thereto all costs incidental to
its removal and storage. (9-21-17.)
(STATE LAW REFERENCE—Authority for above section, see Code of Virginia, Sec. 46.2-1212.)
