How to Get a State-Level Crash Report in Idaho

Short answer

To get a state-level copy of an Idaho crash report, start with the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) Office of Highway Safety (OHS) crash-report request page. OHS says crash records are public information and available to the general public. Its official site identifies OHS as the agency that maintains Idaho’s statewide collision database. The stated price for one PDF is $7.00 plus an Idaho.gov transaction fee. ITD’s crash-report service confirms the same base price.

This is the appropriate statewide starting point even when city police or a county sheriff investigated: ITD’s annual crash report states that the statewide database contains crash reports completed by all law-enforcement agencies in Idaho. It also explains an important limit: the database contains only crashes investigated by law-enforcement officers. If no officer investigated the incident, a state crash report may not exist.

Immediate checklist

Open the ITD OHS crash-report search.
Have the crash date, place, names, and any case or report number ready. The search page presents fields for first name, last name, city, county, last four digits of a driver’s license, case ID, and a date range.
Allow time for a new report to reach the state system. The portal says this takes a few weeks and may take much longer depending on the law-enforcement agency involved.
If the report is not found after that period, use the portal’s instruction to send a request to the OHS office. OHS lists contact information on its official page.
If you need photographs or documents beyond the crash report, contact the agency that investigated the crash. OHS expressly says its purchase service is for the crash report only and that it does not have access to photos or additional crash documents.

For a broader checklist of information worth preserving after a collision, see Car Accident Evidence Checklist.

Who reports what in Idaho

The legal duty to notify law enforcement is different from obtaining a later copy of an officer’s report.

Category	What the official Idaho source says
Immediate notice to law enforcement	Under Idaho Code § 49-1305, a driver involved in a crash resulting in injury or death, or property damage to any one person exceeding $1,500, must immediately give notice by the quickest means. The notice goes to the local police department when the crash occurs within a city; otherwise, it goes to the county sheriff or nearest state police office. If the driver is physically unable to give notice and an occupant can do so, the occupant must give or cause the notice.
Investigating officer’s written report	Idaho Code § 49-1306 requires a law-enforcement officer who investigates a motor-vehicle crash in the regular course of duty to forward a written report to the department within 24 hours after completing the investigation. The statute says those reports and their contents are not privileged or confidential.
State collision-database record	ITD says the responding law-enforcement agency electronically transmits a completed report to OHS, where a crash analyst reviews it before it enters Idaho’s crash database. ITD describes the database as built from reports completed by all Idaho law-enforcement agencies, while also limiting it to crashes investigated by officers.
Separate driver/self-report, DMV report, insurer notice, public-entity notice, or lawsuit deadline	The official materials cited in this guide establish the notification and officer-report rules above and the state record-access process. They do not provide a statewide procedure or deadline for these other categories in connection with getting a crash-report copy, so this guide does not treat them as part of the OHS request process.

The $1,500 notification threshold is not a promise that every crash will instantly be searchable online. It is a rule about prompt notice. The OHS portal separately says a newly created report may take weeks, and potentially longer, to appear.

How to find and request the record

Use the ITD Office of Highway Safety search

The official online ITD Forms—Crash Reports page is the direct state request method. It lets a requester search using the identifying fields available to them. Start with the most reliable information from the incident: the date and location, the involved person’s name, and the case ID if known. Add the city or county and the last four digits of the driver’s license only when those details are available and accurate.

If the matching report appears, the portal’s disclosure says a purchased PDF may be downloaded for up to seven days. The stated fee is $7.00 for one PDF plus transaction fees. The ITD service page says the reports are available to the general public; it does not limit the portal to a driver, vehicle owner, insurer, or lawyer.

If the search does not return a report

A missing online result does not necessarily mean no report exists. The portal directs users who do not see a report to send a request to the OHS office. Give OHS enough identifying information to locate the record: names involved, crash date, city or county, location, case ID or agency report number if known, and the investigating agency’s name. The portal’s waiting-period statement is approximate—“a few weeks,” possibly much longer depending on the agency—not a guaranteed release date.

OHS’s crash-report and statistics page lists its public contact details, including ohsweb@itd.idaho.gov and (208) 334-8000. Use those official contacts rather than relying on third-party report sites.

If local police, a sheriff, or another agency investigated

For the crash report itself, begin with OHS’s statewide process. ITD’s published statewide data description says all Idaho law-enforcement agencies electronically submit crash-report data to the department, and OHS says it maintains the statewide collision database. That makes the OHS search and follow-up request the state-level route for a report that was investigated locally.

For photos, supplemental records, or other documents, go back to the investigating agency’s records process. ITD is clear that OHS does not have access to photos or additional crash documents. Keep the agency name and its case number with your request so the local records staff can identify the event.

If the crash was investigated by the Idaho State Police and you need an ISP-held record beyond the OHS crash-report copy, ISP operates its own public-records portal. That portal lets users submit a new ISP records request, search its request archive, or track a request using the confirmation number and security key. It is an ISP records channel; the ITD OHS portal remains the direct state crash-report ordering route described above.

If an officer did not investigate the incident, the state database may not contain a report. ITD’s annual publication says its data include only crashes investigated by law-enforcement officers. In that situation, confirm with the agency that handled the scene whether it created any record and which records process applies.

Documents and identifiers to gather

Before you search or contact OHS, collect the facts that appear in the state search form or help distinguish similar crashes:

Full name of an involved person;
Crash date and an estimated time if known;
City and county, plus the specific road, intersection, or milepost if available;
Case ID or report number from an officer, citation, exchange sheet, or correspondence;
Last four digits of the driver’s license, if you have them; and
Name of the investigating police department, sheriff’s office, or Idaho State Police unit.

Do not guess at a case number or driver-license digits. A more complete location and date range can be more useful than an inaccurate identifier.

Official resources

ITD: Order a Crash Report — confirms general-public availability and the $7 base charge.
ITD OHS Crash Report Search — online search, listed identifiers, fee disclosure, download window, and availability notice.
ITD Office of Highway Safety — statewide collision-database explanation, OHS contact information, and the limitation on photos and additional documents.
Idaho Code § 49-1305 — immediate crash-notice rule.
Idaho Code § 49-1306 — investigating officer’s written-report rule.
Idaho State Police Records Requests — ISP’s public-records portal for ISP-held records.

For general next steps after a collision, visit What to Do After a Car Accident or browse the site’s guides and resources.