How to Get a State-Level Motorcycle accident Report in Benson, Arizona

Short answer

For an Arizona motorcycle accident report, start with the agency that investigated the motorcycle accident. The Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Services Portal is the state-level request route for reports involving a DPS Trooper on an Interstate or State Highway, and for a qualifying DPS Citizen’s Report of a Motorcycle accident. It is not a public portal for every Arizona motorcycle accident: DPS says reports from county sheriffs, city or local police departments, and town marshals are not retained by DPS and must be requested from the investigative agency. DPS Records Requests

Arizona law requires an employing agency to forward a copy of an officer’s report to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for ADOT’s use. That does not make ADOT’s motorcycle accident-form and training page a public copy-ordering service. For a report copy, use the investigating agency’s process; use DPS only when DPS handled the motorcycle accident. A.R.S. § 28-667 | ADOT Arizona Motorcycle accident Report resources

Immediate checklist

1. Identify the investigating agency. Look at the information card, citation, email, or report number you received. Confirm whether a DPS Trooper, city police department, county sheriff, campus police department, tribal law-enforcement agency, or another agency investigated.
2. If DPS investigated, use the DPS Public Services Portal. Create an account and choose “Request a Report or Records.” DPS accepts written requests in person or by mail as well; it does not take requests by phone. DPS request instructions
3. If another agency investigated, request the record from that agency. A motorcycle accident on a state route does not by itself establish that DPS has the report. DPS’s own instructions make the investigator—not the road name—the key to where a copy is held. DPS Records Requests
4. Keep the incident number. For DPS’s automated unredacted-report process, the published requirement is a complete incident number beginning with a capital “I,” followed by eight digits, with no hyphens. DPS processing instructions
5. Save other motorcycle accident information while you wait. Keep the agency name, approximate motorcycle accident date and location, names of involved people, vehicle information, and any case or incident number. DPS does not publish those items as a universal request-field list, but they can help you direct an inquiry to the right agency.

Who reports what in Arizona

Calling or notifying police

A driver involved in a motorcycle accident resulting in injury or death must give notice immediately, by the quickest oral or written means, to local police if the motorcycle accident occurred within a municipality, the county sheriff, or the nearest highway-patrol office. That statute addresses injury-or-death motorcycle accidents; it does not say that every property-damage motorcycle accident has the same notice rule. A.R.S. § 28-666

The investigating officer’s report

When a law-enforcement officer or public employee investigates a motorcycle accident that results in bodily injury, death, property damage exceeding $2,000, or a citation, the officer or employee must complete a written report within 24 hours after completing the investigation. If the investigated motorcycle accident has property damage of $2,000 or less and has no citation, injury, or death, the law requires a portion of the report with specified minimum details. These are duties triggered by an investigation; they are not a promise that an officer will investigate every motorcycle accident. A.R.S. § 28-667

DPS’s limited online citizen report

DPS offers a Citizen’s Report of a Motorcycle accident for a narrow group of minor motorcycle accidents within DPS jurisdiction on a State Highway. Every listed condition must be met: no injury, estimated total damage under $2,000, and no more than two vehicles. An email account is needed. DPS reviews the submission and, if it approves it, emails a police report number.

DPS says that number takes the place of a motorcycle accident investigation and that there will be no further investigation to determine fault, obtain insurance information, or locate a vehicle that left the scene. The tool does not replace the Arizona Motorcycle accident Report for motorcycle accidents outside its eligibility criteria. For an eligible motorcycle accident, it is an option to submit information—not a copy request for an existing officer report. DPS Citizen’s Report of a Motorcycle accident

Other reporting categories

The official sources linked here do not establish a general separate MVD driver-report filing or a public ADOT report-copy process. ADOT’s page supplies the Arizona Motorcycle accident Report form and law-enforcement training resources. It does not direct the public to order every motorcycle accident record from ADOT. ADOT Arizona Motorcycle accident Report resources

DPS notes that an insurance company may require a report number for a qualifying citizen submission; that is not an official statewide insurer-notice deadline. This article also does not state a public-entity notice deadline or a lawsuit deadline because those rules are not established by the report-access sources above. DPS Citizen’s Report of a Motorcycle accident

How to request a DPS motorcycle accident report

Use the DPS Public Services Portal and select “Request a Report or Records.” The DPS records page also permits a written request in person at the DPS Public Services Center, 2222 W. Encanto Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 85009, or by mail to DPS Public Records, PO Box 6638 Mail Drop 3240, Phoenix, AZ 85005-6638. Requests cannot be taken over the phone. DPS Records Requests

Arizona’s motorcycle accident-report statute specifically requires the employing agency, on request and except as otherwise provided by law, to provide an unredacted report to these categories:

• a person involved in the motorcycle accident, the owner of an involved vehicle, or that person’s or owner’s representative;
• certain insurers and their specified claims, anti-fraud, rating, or underwriting personnel;
• an Arizona-licensed attorney or licensed private investigator representing a person involved in a qualifying proceeding or investigation; and
• an insurance support organization providing specified services.

The statute prohibits examination or copies for a commercial-solicitation purpose. It also permits a law-enforcement agency to deny an unredacted report if release would harm a criminal investigation, and requires redaction of a victim’s personal identifying information in the stated criminal-complaint circumstances. A.R.S. § 28-667

DPS’s automated process is intended for requesters in the statutory unredacted-report categories. Reports with supplements or attachments, and reports categorized as fatalities, are not eligible for that automation. DPS does not publish a general document checklist for every requester on this page, so do not assume a particular ID or authorization document is required unless DPS or the investigating agency asks for it. DPS processing instructions

Fees and timing

For DPS records, electronic delivery by email or through the Public Services Portal is listed at $9.00 (with a 5 MB limit). Paper copies cost $9.00 for the first nine pages and $0.10 for each additional page. Those are DPS charges; a city, county, tribal, campus, or other investigating agency may have its own procedure and fee. DPS fee schedule

One DPS page says it receives completed Trooper reports within 14 days of the incident and asks people to wait at least 14 days before checking availability. Separately, DPS says its automated unredacted-report process generally fulfills qualifying Portal requests within 48 hours after submission. The 48-hour statement applies to eligible automated requests, not to every report or to the period before a Trooper’s report is available. DPS report availability guidance | DPS processing instructions

If the report is unavailable or held elsewhere

If DPS says it does not retain the report, contact the investigative agency in that jurisdiction. DPS expressly directs requests for county and local incidents—including county sheriffs, city or local police departments, and town marshal offices—to the investigative agency. This is the correct fallback for a local-agency motorcycle accident report, rather than repeatedly submitting a DPS request. DPS Records Requests

For a campus, tribal, or other non-DPS agency, follow that agency’s records process. Do not treat the statewide Arizona Motorcycle accident Report form as proof that DPS or ADOT holds a public copy of a report investigated by another agency. Arizona’s general public-records law provides for inspection of public records held by an officer during office hours, while the motorcycle accident-report statute supplies more specific rules for motorcycle accident reports. A.R.S. § 39-121 | A.R.S. § 28-667

While you locate the right record, keep copies of the information you already have. The motorcycle accident evidence checklist and what to do after a motorcycle accident provide practical organization steps. More public information is available in the site’s guides and resources.

Official resources

• Arizona DPS — Records Requests
• Arizona DPS Public Services Portal
• Arizona DPS — Citizen’s Report of a Motorcycle accident
• A.R.S. § 28-667 — Written accident report
• A.R.S. § 28-666 — Notice of vehicle accident
• ADOT — Arizona Motorcycle accident Report forms and resources

Sources

1. Arizona Department of Public Safety, “Records Requests”
2. Arizona Department of Public Safety, “Request Records”
3. Arizona Revised Statutes § 28-667, “Written accident report; definition”
4. Arizona Revised Statutes § 28-666, “Notice of vehicle accident”
5. Arizona Department of Transportation, “Arizona Crash Report Forms, Resources and Training Events”
6. Arizona Revised Statutes § 39-121, “Inspection of public records”