How to get a car accident report in Nevada

Where to get the report

• Nevada Highway Patrol (crashes worked by troopers) NHP: $10 per report, 7 to 14 days

  The Nevada Highway Patrol’s Crash Report Request page says you need the crash number, the last name of an involved party and the crash date; the crash number must include “NHP” followed by the number (its example is NHP123456789). It says reports will be available 7 to 14 days from the date of the crash and lists a $10 fee per crash report, and it links CRASHDOCS.org (“Find yours instantly”); the page does not say whether the $10 is the price on that site. Fatal crash reports and all crash photos ($5 fee for photos) come from the regional offices, open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Northern Command West, 357 Hammill Lane, Reno, NV 89511, (775) 687-9600 (Reno, Carson, Tahoe, Minden, Fernley, Fallon, Yerington, Hawthorne and Tonopah); Northern Command East, 3920 East Idaho Street, Elko, NV 89801, (775) 753-1111 (Lovelock, Winnemucca, Elko, Ely and other parts of eastern Nevada); and Southern Command, 6830 Bermuda Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119, (702) 668-4100 (Las Vegas, Boulder City, Laughlin, Searchlight and other parts of southern Nevada). The Department of Public Safety’s records page also says to contact the Highway Patrol office for the area where the crash happened to request a report under NRS 480.600, listing Las Vegas 702-668-4100, Reno 775-687-9600 and Elko 775-753-1111; its public records FAQ lists different regional numbers (Reno 775-687-9607, Las Vegas 702-432-5109, Elko 775-753-1171). By law, NHP must give a person who claims damages from the crash, or that person’s legal representative or insurer, the crash report and all witness statements and photographs it holds about the crash within 7 days after receiving a written request and a reasonable fee to cover the cost of reproduction, unless the materials are privileged or confidential under a specific statute or the crash involved death or substantial bodily harm, a failure to stop at the scene, or a felony (NRS 480.600).

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• City police, sheriff or metropolitan police that responded Ask that agency; fee varies

  Ask the agency that worked your crash. City police, county sheriffs and metropolitan police departments each have the same statutory duty as NHP: within 7 days after a written request from a person who claims damages from the crash, or that person’s legal representative or insurer, and on receipt of a reasonable fee to cover the cost of reproduction, it must provide the crash report and all witness statements and photographs it holds about the crash, unless the materials are privileged or confidential under a specific statute or the crash involved death or substantial bodily harm, a failure to stop at the scene, or a felony (city police, NRS 268.900; sheriffs, NRS 248.242; metropolitan police departments, NRS 280.400). Each agency sets its own fee and process. Example, Reno Police Department only: its Records Division page says to request a traffic accident report through CRASHDOCS.org (its Reno Police Dept page), and its FAQ says copies of incident, traffic accident and arrest reports can be requested online through the City of Reno Public Records Portal (its preferred method), in person at the front desk kiosk, or by mail to Reno Police Department, Attn: Records Section, PO Box 1900, Reno, NV 89505; that the department has up to five business days to respond from the date of receipt; and that the main station is at 911 Kuenzli Street, open 8:00 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Saturday. We could not load the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s or the City of Henderson’s records pages, so we do not state their fees; ask those agencies directly.

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When you must report a crash in Nevada

No officer, injury/highway: tell police

Stop and help: the driver of any vehicle in a crash on a highway or on premises to which the public has access (for example a parking lot or parking garage, NRS 484A.185) that injures or kills anyone must immediately stop at or as close as possible to the scene, return to it, and remain until the duties in NRS 484E.030 are met, without obstructing traffic more than necessary (NRS 484E.010(1), (2)). Leaving is a category B felony punished by 2 to 20 years in state prison and a fine of $2,000 to $5,000, a separate offense for each person injured or killed, and the sentence may not be suspended nor probation granted (484E.010(3), (4)). In a crash on a highway or such premises that damages only a vehicle or other property that is driven or attended by someone, you must immediately stop and, if your vehicle is creating a hazard or obstructing traffic and can be moved safely, move it out of the traffic lanes to a safe location that does not create a hazard or obstruct traffic; violating this is a misdemeanor (NRS 484E.020). Exchange information: after any crash on a highway or such premises that injures or kills anyone or damages an attended vehicle or property, give your name, address and the registration number of the vehicle you are driving, and on request and if available show your driver’s license, to anyone injured and to the driver, occupant or person attending any damaged vehicle or property; give the same information, and on request hand over your license, to any police officer at the scene or investigating; and give reasonable assistance to anyone injured, including carrying or arranging to carry them to a physician, surgeon or hospital if treatment is apparently necessary or they ask (NRS 484E.030(1)). Report to police: if no police officer is present, after meeting those duties as far as you can, you must forthwith report the crash to the nearest office of a police authority or of the Nevada Highway Patrol, and give it the same information, if the crash injured or killed anyone or occurred on a highway (484E.030(2)); a highway is the entire width between the boundary lines of every way dedicated to a public authority when any part of it is open to public vehicle traffic (NRS 484A.095). The statute sets no dollar threshold for that police report. Violating NRS 484E.030 is a misdemeanor (484E.030(3)). Unattended vehicle or property: if you hit an unattended vehicle or other unattended property on a highway or premises open to the public, stop immediately and either find and tell its operator or owner the name and address of the driver and of the owner of the vehicle that struck it, or securely attach a written notice with those names and addresses in a conspicuous place on it; if your vehicle is creating a hazard or obstructing traffic and can be moved safely, move it out of the traffic lanes first (NRS 484E.040). If that crash happened on a highway, you must also immediately, by the quickest means of communication, notify the nearest office of a police authority or of the Nevada Highway Patrol; if the driver is physically incapable, a capable occupant must do it (NRS 484E.050). Each is a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is punishable by up to 6 months in county jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both, unless the statute sets a different penalty (NRS 193.150). The police side: an officer who investigates a crash that injured or killed anyone or caused total damage to any vehicle or item of property to an apparent extent of $750 or more must prepare a report (NRS 484E.110(5)), and every officer who investigates a reportable crash or otherwise writes a crash report must submit it to the Department of Public Safety through its electronic crash reporting system within 10 days after the crash, or after the date of death of a person who died as a result of it (484E.110(1), as amended by 2025 AB 55). Cities and counties may have their own ordinances, which we did not survey.

The driver report you may have to file

Injury/$750+, no officer: SR-1, 10 days

Nevada has a separate driver report to the Department of Motor Vehicles. The driver of a vehicle in any manner involved in a crash on a highway or on premises to which the public has access must, within 10 days after the crash, forward a written or electronic report to the DMV if the crash resulted in bodily injury to or the death of any person, or total damage to any vehicle or item of property to an apparent extent of $750 or more; when a motor vehicle is damaged, the operator must attach an estimate of repairs or a statement of total loss from an established repair garage, an insurance adjuster employed by an insurer licensed in Nevada, or an adjuster or appraiser licensed under NRS chapter 684A or 684B, and the DMV may require supplemental reports (NRS 484E.070(2)). Exception: no report is required from anyone if a police officer investigated the crash under NRS 484E.110 and the officer’s report contains the name and address of the insurance company covering each person involved, each policy number, and the dates coverage begins and ends (484E.070(3)). A person physically incapable of reporting need not report while incapacitated, and if that driver is not the owner, the owner must make the report within 10 days after learning of the crash (484E.070(5)). The form is DMV form SR-1, Report of Traffic Crash, mailed to the DMV at 555 Wright Way, Carson City, NV 89711. The form adds requirements of its own: it says to attach a copy of the insurance in effect for the vehicle on the crash date, an estimate of repairs or statement of total loss if there was $750 or more in vehicle or property damage “(of any one person)”, and a doctor’s statement of injury for each person injured in your vehicle, that the report is void without those attachments or a signature, and that it cannot be accepted or processed unless every section is completed for every driver and vehicle involved. Signing it authorizes the DMV to release your name, mailing address and insurance information to the other parties and their insurers. Official sources describe the trigger differently: the form’s instructions say it is required after a crash that was “NOT investigated at the scene by law enforcement”, the DMV forms index says it is for a crash not investigated at the scene that caused injury, death or “more than $750 damage”, while the statute says $750 or more and excuses the report only when an investigating officer’s report contains every party’s insurance details. If you are unsure whether the officer’s report recorded the insurance information, filing the SR-1 is the cautious course. Penalty: if a person willfully fails, refuses or neglects to make a crash report, the person’s driving privilege may be suspended, and the suspension remains in effect for 1 year unless ended by receipt of the report or of evidence that the failure was not willful (NRS 484E.080(1)); the DMV’s DLD-68 Failure to Report a Vehicle Crash Affidavit is the sworn statement that a failure was not willful. Knowingly giving false information in a crash report is a gross misdemeanor (484E.080(2)), punishable by up to 364 days in county jail, a fine of up to $2,000, or both (NRS 193.140). The SR-1 also says that if insurance was not in effect on the crash date, your driving privilege and registration may be suspended under NRS chapter 485. Driver and owner reports are confidential, for the DMV’s use and other state agencies’ crash prevention use, except that the DMV may tell a person involved, or that person’s insurer, the identity of another person involved when it is not otherwise known or the person denies being present, along with that person’s insurer and policy number; they cannot be used as evidence in a civil or criminal trial arising out of the crash (484E.070(6), (7)).

What the report costs

NHP $10; local agencies set own fee

No statute sets a dollar amount for a Nevada police crash report. The crash report statutes let NHP, city police, sheriffs and metropolitan police charge “a reasonable fee to cover the cost of reproduction” when they give the report to a person claiming damages, a legal representative or an insurer (NRS 480.600, 268.900, 248.242, 280.400), and the Public Records Act limits any copy fee to the agency’s actual cost unless a specific statute or regulation sets the fee; actual cost means the direct cost of providing the record, such as ink, toner, paper, media and postage, and excludes costs the agency incurs whether or not anyone asks for the record (NRS 239.052(1), 239.005(1)). Each agency must keep a list of its fees and post a sign saying what it charges or where the list is (239.052(3)). Nevada Highway Patrol, from its own page: $10 per crash report, and $5 for photos from a regional office. Other agencies set their own fees; we could not load the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s or Henderson’s fee pages. We found no filing fee on the DMV SR-1 driver report form.

When the report is ready

NHP: 7 to 14 days after the crash

The Nevada Highway Patrol says its crash reports will be available 7 to 14 days from the date of the crash. Officers must submit every crash report to the Department of Public Safety’s electronic crash reporting system within 10 days after the crash or after a resulting death (NRS 484E.110(1)), and DPS must send a copy to the DMV as soon as practicable (484E.110(6)). For a person who claims damages, a representative or an insurer, the law requires the agency to provide the report within 7 days after receiving a written request and the fee, except in the death, substantial bodily harm, failure to stop and felony cases described below (NRS 480.600, 268.900, 248.242, 280.400). Any other request is a public records request, which the agency must answer by the end of the fifth business day after receiving it, either with the record, a written notice that it does not have it, a written notice of the earliest date and time it reasonably believes the record will be ready, or a written denial citing the specific law that makes the record confidential (NRS 239.0107(1)). Example, Reno Police Department only: it says it has up to five business days to respond to a request from the date of receipt. Retention: we found no official statement of how long NHP or local agencies keep crash reports.

Who can get a copy

Damaged party, rep or insurer: 7 days

The crash report statutes give a firm right, with a 7-day deadline, to a person who claims to have sustained damages as a result of the crash, the person’s legal representative, and the person’s insurer: the agency must provide the crash report and all witness statements and photographs it holds about the crash (NRS 480.600 for the Highway Patrol and the DPS Investigation Division, 268.900 for city police, 248.242 for sheriffs, 280.400 for metropolitan police). That duty does not apply if the materials are privileged or confidential under a specific statute, or if the crash involved the death or substantial bodily harm of a person, a failure to stop at the scene of a crash, or the commission of a felony. These statutes lift only the 7-day duty for those crashes and do not make their reports confidential; a request for them goes through the Public Records Act, under which the agency may withhold records it can justify withholding (see our accident video page for Nevada). Separately, the law says the reports police officers must submit, and the information in them, are not privileged or confidential (NRS 484E.110(3)), and the Public Records Act opens public records to inspection by any person unless otherwise declared confidential by law, and requires an agency to redact confidential parts rather than deny a whole record (NRS 239.010(1), (3)). We found no Nevada statute limiting police crash reports to the people involved, but agencies may redact personal information, and NHP’s request page asks for the crash number, an involved party’s last name and the crash date. Driver SR-1 reports filed with the DMV are different: they are confidential, with limited disclosure to people involved and their insurers (NRS 484E.070(6)).

What to do now

1. 1

   Report the crash if no officer came

   If anyone was hurt or the crash was on a highway, report it right away to the nearest police or Highway Patrol office. If you hit an unattended car on a highway, notify police immediately as well.

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   Get the crash number and the agency

   NHP reports need the crash number (NHP followed by digits), an involved party’s last name and the crash date. Note which agency worked the crash.

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   Request the report in writing

   NHP says reports are ready 7 to 14 days after the crash, at $10 each. If you claim damages, the law gives the agency 7 days after your written request and fee, except after crashes with death, substantial bodily harm, a failure to stop or a felony.

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   File an SR-1 within 10 days if needed

   If anyone was hurt or damage is $750 or more and no officer’s report records everyone’s insurance, mail the DMV form SR-1 with its attachments within 10 days.

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   Request video separately, now

   Video is not part of the crash report. Ask the agency for its body camera video today, and post the crash on the bounty board for dashcam and business camera footage.

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