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Florida Senate Bill 102 has unanimously passed in the Senate and House and will become law. Below is just a quick summary of the bill but it contains much more detail regarding what serious bodily injury means and additional details. If you are interested in learning more about this bill, you can find details at http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0102/BillText/er/HTML.

Drivers Leaving the Scene of a Crash; Creating the “Aaron Cohen Life Protection Act”; requiring the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash that results in serious bodily injury to a person to immediately stop the vehicle and remain at the scene of the crash; providing that a person commits a felony of the second degree if he or she fails to stop the vehicle and remain at the scene of the crash until specified requirements are fulfilled; requiring the court to revoke for at least 3 years the driver license of a person convicted of leaving the scene of a crash involving injury, serious bodily injury, or death, etc.