Nevada Crash Report: Get the Police Report, File the SR-1, Read It

Two reports

The two Nevada crash reports, side by side

Most states have one crash report. Nevada has two, and they work differently. The police report is the officer’s record, and anyone involved can buy it. The SR-1 is the driver’s own report to the Department of Motor Vehicles, required when no officer reported the crash, and the law keeps it out of court.

Nevada Revised Statutes, chapter 484E, as revised April 15, 2026 (Legislature of Nevada); DMV form SR-1, revised February 2023.

The DMV form

How to file the SR-1

The SR-1 is the DMV’s Report of Traffic Crash. Its own instructions say it must be completed within 10 days after a crash in Nevada that was not investigated at the scene by law enforcement. The statute adds the exception that matters most: no driver report is needed when an officer investigated and the officer’s report gives, for every person involved, the insurance company’s name and address, the policy number, and the dates the coverage begins and ends (NRS 484E.070(3)).

1. Get the form from the DMV: form SR-1, Report of Traffic Crash, revised February 2023.
2. Fill in every section: the date, time and place, both drivers, the vehicles and their insurance, and what happened.
3. Attach what the form asks for: a copy of your insurance information; for a vehicle with $750 or more of damage, a repair estimate or a total loss statement; and for each injured person, a statement from a doctor.
4. Use a qualified estimate. The law accepts an estimate of repairs or a statement of total loss from an established repair garage, an adjuster employed by an insurer licensed in Nevada, a licensed adjuster or a licensed appraiser (NRS 484E.070(2)).
5. Mail it to the DMV at 555 Wright Way, Carson City, NV 89711, within the 10 days, and keep a copy with the date you sent it.

The SR-1 is a report to the state, not a claim. It does not notify any insurer, so tell your own insurer, and the other driver’s, separately.

The police report

How to get a Nevada police crash report

Each report stays with the agency whose officer investigated. In Las Vegas and the unincorporated parts of Clark County, including the Strip, that is usually the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department; on the interstates and highways it is often the Nevada Highway Patrol; in Henderson and Reno it is the city police.

Fees and steps from each agency’s own records page, checked November 10, 2026.

Asking Las Vegas Metro for the report

1. Wait 10 business days. LVMPD asks for that much time so the report can become available; some take longer, or need review before release.
2. Have the details ready: the event or report number if you have one, the names of the people involved, the date and approximate time, the nearest cross streets, and the license plates and their states.
3. Choose how to ask. Online is simplest. In person, bring a valid government photo ID; area commands do not take cash. By mail, include a notarized identity verification and a copy of your ID, and allow about 3 to 4 weeks.
4. Asking for someone else needs that person’s notarized authorization; an attorney sends one on letterhead with the client’s full name and date of birth.

Highway Patrol crashes

The 7 day rule for statements and photos

For a crash the Nevada Highway Patrol handled, the law reaches past the report itself. Within 7 days of a written request from a person who claims damages from the crash, or that person’s lawyer or insurer, the Highway Patrol must provide a copy of the crash report and all the witness statements and photographs it holds about the crash, for a reasonable copying fee (NRS 480.600).

The same duty applies to the Investigation Division of the Department of Public Safety. It does not apply when the materials are privileged or confidential under a specific statute, or when the crash involved:

• a death or substantial bodily harm,
• a driver who failed to stop at the scene, or
• a felony.

Witness statements and scene photos are often worth more than the report’s summary of them, so put the request in writing and name all three: the report, the statements and the photographs. On the scene sheet, the boxes Photos Taken and Statements show whether there is anything to ask for.

Reading it

How to read a Nevada police crash report

The state’s crash report is built from separate sheets rather than fixed pages. The last version of the state form that is public, revised January 14, 2004 and posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has a Scene Information Sheet for the crash, a Vehicle Information Sheet for each vehicle, a Non-Motorist Information Sheet for each pedestrian, cyclist or skater, and an Occupant and Witness Supplement. Agencies now file through the state’s electronic crash reporting system (NRS 484E.110), so the copy you get may be printed in a different layout; the headings below are the ones to look for. By law the form must capture the cause, the conditions, the people and vehicles involved, and each insurer, policy number and coverage period (NRS 484E.120).

Codes printed on the state form State of Nevada Traffic Accident Report, revised January 14, 2004

On the state form the choices are printed beside each box, so a code can be read off the sheet itself. These are the lists that bear most on fault and injury. A report printed by an agency’s software may show the words instead of the numbers, or use a newer list; when the two differ, the codes printed on your own copy are the ones that apply.

Source: State of Nevada Traffic Accident Report, Vehicle, Scene and Non-Motorist Information Sheets and the Form 5 code list, revised January 14, 2004, as posted by NHTSA (61 codes in 6 lists).

Fault

Does the At Fault box decide who pays in Nevada?

No. The At Fault box is the officer’s opinion. In a Nevada injury case the jury decides the percentage of negligence for each party, and an injured person recovers as long as their own negligence was not greater than that of the parties they sue (NRS 41.141(1)).

The jury returns two verdicts: the total damages, without regard to the injured person’s own negligence, and the percentage of negligence for each party (NRS 41.141(2)(b)). The total is then reduced by the injured person’s share. At 50 percent, half is recovered; above 50 percent, nothing.

When the injured person shares the blame, each defendant generally pays only its own percentage of the judgment (NRS 41.141(4)), with exceptions for strict liability, intentional acts, toxic substances, defendants acting in concert, and defective products (41.141(5)). So the factors coded against each driver matter, and an At Fault mark against you is worth answering with photos, video, witnesses and the damage pattern.

Mistakes

When your Nevada crash report is wrong

Only the agency that wrote the report can change it. The state’s form already has the tool for that: the report type box at the top of the scene sheet includes Supplement Report.

1. Get your copy and mark each error: a wrong name, plate or insurer, the At Fault box on the wrong vehicle, a factor on the wrong driver, a wrong lane or direction.
2. Gather proof: your insurance card, photos, dashcam video, the repair estimate, a witness’s name and number.
3. Contact the agency’s records unit with the event or report number and ask how it reviews a correction or a supplement.
4. Put it in writing and keep the date you sent it.

Visitors

Hurt in a crash while visiting Las Vegas

A crash on a trip leaves the paperwork in Nevada and you at home. All of it can be done from a distance:

• The police report. LVMPD takes requests online and by mail, including from outside Nevada. Online is faster; a traffic collision report can come back through a secure email link.
• The SR-1. The rule covers any driver in a crash in Nevada, rental car drivers and visitors included, when no officer reported it with full insurance details. Mail it from home within the 10 days.
• Medical care. Keep every record from the emergency room in Las Vegas and from your own doctor at home; together they show the injury from the first day.
• The deadline. A Nevada injury lawsuit must be filed within two years (NRS 11.190(4)(e)), wherever you live now.

Nevada’s minimum liability policy is $25,000 for one person’s injuries, $50,000 for everyone hurt in one crash and $20,000 for property (NRS 485.185). For a crash in a ride with Uber or Lyft, see our rideshare accident claims guide.

Ten years of data

Nevada traffic deaths, 2015 to 2024

Nevada’s traffic deaths reached 419 in 2024, in 381 fatal crashes, the highest count in ten years by the state’s preliminary figures. Over the decade, 3,542 people died on Nevada roads: 43.5 percent in crashes involving an impaired driver, 30.6 percent at intersections, 29.8 percent in crashes where speed was a factor, and 23.7 percent of them pedestrians, with a record 113 pedestrian deaths in 2024.

Source: Nevada Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, 2025 Annual Report to the Governor and the Legislative Counsel Bureau (December 30, 2025), from NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System for 2015 to 2023 and the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety’s preliminary data for 2024, which stays preliminary until 2026. A death can count in more than one column.

From report to claim

What the report means for the value of your claim

Neither the police report nor the SR-1 puts a price on a claim. A Nevada injury claim is valued from the medical bills, the lost pay, the injury itself and its effect on daily life, then reduced by your share of the negligence, with nothing left above 50 percent. The police report shapes the fault argument through the At Fault box, the factors and the citations, and it is the first record of how badly people were hurt.

If the other driver carries only Nevada’s minimum $25,000 for one person, your own underinsured motorist coverage may pay the rest. The Nevada settlement guide covers the state’s other rules, and the Las Vegas and Reno pages cover claims in each city.

Deadlines

Nevada deadlines, from 10 days to 3 years

The shortest Nevada deadline is the SR-1’s: 10 days. An injury lawsuit must be filed within two years of the crash (NRS 11.190(4)(e)), and a lawsuit over damage to a vehicle within three years (NRS 11.190(3)(c)). A claim against the state is presented to the Attorney General, and one against a city or county to its governing body, within two years; filing it is not required before suing (NRS 41.036).

Practice

Three sample Nevada crashes, read the way an adjuster reads them

These are made up cases, written to show how the sheets and the SR-1 fit together.

Questions people in Nevada ask

Nevada crash report questions

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