Nevada accident report: find the agency and request a copy

Nevada keeps reports with the agency that wrote them

We know of no statewide counter that sells every Nevada agency's crash reports. Each agency we have read keeps and releases its own, each in its own way. Five of them, the Highway Patrol, Reno police, Henderson police, North Las Vegas police and the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, send you to outside websites for crash reports. Las Vegas Metro takes requests through its own form, its counters and the mail.

So the first question in Nevada is the same as in Arizona: who came? A trooper, a city officer, a metro officer or a deputy each sends you somewhere different.

Nevada agencies side by side

Read on each agency's own page on 12 November 2026.

Working out who came

Look at the paper you were given at the scene. It names the agency and carries its number. A Highway Patrol number is easy to spot, because the patrol says it must include the letters NHP.

If you have nothing in writing and are not sure who came, call the Highway Patrol regional office for that part of the state and ask whether the crash is one of theirs.

The offices are open Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.

Highway Patrol reports in brief

For a crash a trooper investigated, the patrol's Crash Report Request page sends you to Crashdocs. The patrol lists three things you must have: the crash number, the last name of an involved party and the date of the crash. The number "must include \"NHP\" followed by number", in the form NHP123456789.

• Fee: $10 per crash report.
• Wait: available 7 to 14 days from the date of the crash.
• Fatal crashes: the report comes from the regional office, not from Crashdocs.
• Photos: from the regional office, for a fee of $5.

The Nevada Highway Patrol page has the full process and the address and phone of every patrol substation in the state.

Reno police reports

The Reno Police Department's Records Division keeps the original reports the department receives, including crime, arrest and traffic accident reports. For a copy of a traffic accident report, its page sends you to Crashdocs, with a link labelled CRASHDOCS.ORG RENO POLICE DEPT.

For any other report, or if you would rather ask the department directly, Reno police give three ways in.

The Records Division is open to the public from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday to Saturday. Online and in person, it takes Visa, Mastercard and Discover credit cards and bank issued debit cards.

On timing, the department is precise: "By law, the department has up to five (5) business days to respond to your request from the date of receipt." Records can be sent online, picked up in person, or mailed if you send a stamped envelope.

Two more details from the department's page. Dispatch records, calls for service and 911 recordings are requested only through the portal, under category 3, General Records, with questions to 775-334-2121. And the records database that held information from 1988 to 2001 is no longer available, so a very old report may not exist.

Washoe County Sheriff's Office reports

When a Washoe County deputy came to the crash, the report is with the Sheriff's Office. Its page says that, in partnership with the Carfax Police Crash Assistance Program, it is now offering accident reports online, and the page has a link to get your report.

The Sheriff's Records Section is the central repository for everything the agency produces, including case reports. Its main phone is (775) 328-3023. It works Monday to Thursday, 7:30 to 4:00, closed for lunch from 12 to 1 and on holidays, and its services are by appointment only.

Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas

Three police departments share the Las Vegas valley, and each releases its reports its own way. The Highway Patrol's Southern Command, at 6830 Bermuda Road, phone (702) 668-4100, covers Las Vegas, Boulder City, Laughlin, Searchlight and other parts of southern Nevada, so a crash on a highway near the city may be a patrol report instead.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

LVMPD calls a crash report a traffic collision report. It costs $13.00, and the department asks you to wait at least 10 business days after the crash before requesting one. You can ask through its online form, at the Records and Fingerprint Bureau in Building C at 400 S. Martin Luther King Boulevard, at an area command, or by mail, and a collision report may be delivered through a secure email link. The identification it accepts and the rules for asking on someone else's behalf are on the Las Vegas Metro page.

Henderson police

Henderson's Request Records page links to an outside request site, secure.coplogic.com, for a closed traffic accident report. The city is clear that "Accidents that are under investigation will not be available until the investigation is complete and the case is closed." A traffic report costs $10. Henderson takes credit cards other than American Express, personal checks, cash and money orders.

For a police report, Henderson asks you to call 702-267-4700 before coming in person, to confirm the report can be released. Have ready the report number, written like 25-12345, your name, the type of incident, the names of the people involved, the date and time, and the address or location.

North Las Vegas police

North Las Vegas sends you to LexisNexis BuyCrash to buy an accident report, and the price is shown there. Its Records Division, at 2266 Civic Center Drive, North Las Vegas, NV 89030, phone (702) 633-1715, sells other police reports for $5 each and does not take personal checks. It is open Monday to Thursday: report hours are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and the Records Division keeps 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The city warns that Mondays and the first business day after a holiday may have longer waits.

To ask by mail, the city wants a copy of your identification, a notarized letter with the case number or other details, a self addressed stamped envelope, and every fee included with the request. Photos are $10 on a disc or $2 a page in color, and a 911 call recording is $10. If you ask for a 911 call or photos, the return envelope has to fit a CD.

What to have ready

• The agency's name. It decides which of the routes on this page applies.
• The report number, typed the agency's way. For the Highway Patrol that means NHP and then the digits.
• The date of the crash and a last name. The Highway Patrol's search requires both, alongside the number.
• A card. Reno police take Visa, Mastercard, Discover and bank issued debit cards online and in person.
• A stamped envelope, if you ask Reno police by mail and want the copy mailed back.
• An appointment, if you need the Washoe County Sheriff's Records Section in person.

A ticket written at the crash

A citation is a separate record from the crash report. For a citation a Highway Patrol trooper wrote, the patrol's citation page says to contact the respective regional office, the same three offices in Reno, Elko and Las Vegas that handle fatal reports and photos. They keep the same hours, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. For Southern Command, the citation page lists the phone number (702) 486-4100.

Nevada's public records law

Nevada's Public Records Act is in NRS chapter 239. The Department of Public Safety describes it as ensuring that government documents are available to the public for inspection or copying within the constraints of the law. For Highway Patrol accident reports, the department names a different section, NRS 480.600, and tells people to ask the patrol office for the area where the accident occurred.

The department's own records system shows what a Nevada public records request should contain:

1. Who you areYour name, address and telephone number, and the date of the request.
2. What you wantA description of the record detailed enough for the records official to identify it.
3. How you want itWhether you want to inspect it or receive a copy, in paper or electronic form.
4. How it should reach youBy mail, fax or email.

The department charges its actual cost, including ink, paper, media and postage. Payments by mail or in person are by check, money order or exact cash, and online requests can be paid by credit card. A request that needs more than two hours of staff time is treated as extraordinary.

What a Nevada accident report costs

When it goes wrong

The online search finds nothing

For a Highway Patrol report, check that the number starts with NHP and wait until 14 days have passed. Then call the regional office for the area.

You are not sure which agency came

Call the Highway Patrol regional office for that part of the state. If the crash is not theirs, ask the city police or the sheriff for the place where it happened.

Someone died in the crash

For a crash the Highway Patrol worked, the report comes from the regional office and not from Crashdocs.

The crash was many years ago

Reno police warn that their records database for 1988 to 2001 is no longer available.

Reading a Nevada report

This page covers where to get the report. For what its boxes and codes mean, FairSettlement.org has a full guide: how to read a Nevada crash report.

Nevada pages on this site

• AgencyNevada Highway PatrolThe NHP crash number, the $10 report on Crashdocs, fatal reports and photos from the three regional offices, and every substation.
• AgencyLas Vegas Metropolitan PoliceLVMPD traffic collision reports: the 10 business day wait, the $13.00 fee, the online form, Building C and the area commands, and requests by mail.

Nevada accident report questions