625 ILCS 5/11-401 requires a driver involved in any motor vehicle accident resulting in injury, death, or property damage to stop, remain at the scene, exchange identifying information, and render aid. Failure to stop or leaving before duties are completed triggers leaving the scene charges. When combined with DUI, prosecutors typically stack the offenses. The chicagoduilawyer.net brand sees this pattern often: driver panics after minor contact, keeps going, and gets located hours later. That interim window matters because BAC dissipates, and the State faces a harder impairment proof, but the leaving-the-scene charge is often what carries the harshest consequence.
