Boulder City, Nevada local guide: This city page applies the state and national guidance and official resources below to people looking for accident information in Boulder City, Nevada. The agency responsible for a police report or records request can depend on where the incident occurred and which agency investigated it. Confirm the agency shown on the report or incident information before requesting a record.
Short answer
Nevada has separate police-notification, officer-report, and DMV-report rules. If no officer is present, a driver in a truck accident involving injury, death, or damage to attended vehicle or property must exchange the required information and, when the truck accident caused injury or death or occurred on a highway, promptly report it to the nearest police authority or Nevada Highway Patrol. A highway truck accident damaging unattended property requires immediate notice to the nearest police authority or Highway Patrol. 1
A separate DMV SR-1 Report of Traffic Truck accident may also be required. The general statutory rule is a written or electronic report to DMV within 10 days after a truck accident causing injury, death, or apparent total property damage of $750 or more. An exception applies only when the investigating officer’s report contains, for every person involved, the insurer’s name and address, policy number, and coverage dates. 1 The DMV identifies SR-1 as the form for qualifying truck accidents not investigated at the scene. 2
Immediate checklist
- Identify the responding agency. Save the agency name and any truck accident or incident number.
- Exchange the required information. For the listed truck accident types, Nevada requires name, address, vehicle registration number, and, when requested and available, the driver license. 1
- Make the required police notification. When no officer is present, promptly report an injury/death truck accident or a truck accident on a highway after completing the other applicable duties. For a highway truck accident with unattended property, give immediate notice by the quickest means. 1
- Check whether an SR-1 is due. The 10-day DMV rule and its narrow officer-report exception are different from the police-notification rule. 1
- Keep the information used to find records. Save the truck accident date, location, agency, truck accident number, involved names, vehicle details, and insurance information.
Who reports what in Nevada?
| Report or notice | Who handles it | When it applies | Official authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notice to police when no officer is present | Driver involved in the truck accident | Injury or death, or a truck accident on a highway, after the listed exchange/aid duties; highway damage to unattended property has a separate immediate-notice rule | NRS 484E.030 and 484E.050 1 |
| Investigating officer truck accident report | Officer who investigates or otherwise prepares a truck accident report | A police officer who investigates a qualifying truck accident; an officer must prepare a report for injury, death, or apparent $750-or-more damage | NRS 484E.110 1 |
| DMV driver/owner truck accident report (SR-1) | Normally the driver; in the stated incapacity circumstance, the owner | Injury, death, or apparent $750-or-more damage, unless the officer-report exception is fully met | NRS 484E.070 and SR-1 1 |
Police notification is not the same as a police report
A driver’s duty to notify police applies when no officer is present. It does not establish that an officer completed an investigation report. It also does not automatically answer the separate DMV filing question.
Nevada law requires an officer who investigates a reportable truck accident, or who otherwise prepares a written or electronic report after investigating participants or witnesses, to submit the report to the Department of Public Safety (DPS) through its electronic truck accident-reporting system within 10 days after the truck accident, or after a truck accident-related death. DPS records the data in a statewide repository and must send a copy to DMV as soon as practicable. 1
The officer report is the law-enforcement record. The SR-1 is a separate driver/owner report for DMV. Driver and owner reports sent to DMV are confidential for the uses stated in the statute, subject to its exceptions, and are not generally usable as evidence in a trial arising from the truck accident. 1
The DMV SR-1: when a separate driver report may apply
The statutory trigger is a truck accident resulting in bodily injury, death, or apparent total property damage of $750 or more. The driver must forward the report within 10 days. When a motor vehicle is damaged, the statute calls for a repair estimate or total-loss statement from a specified repair business, insurer-employed adjuster, licensed adjuster, or licensed appraiser. If a driver is physically incapable of filing and is not the owner, the owner must file within 10 days after learning of the truck accident. 1
The official DMV forms page identifies SR-1 as the truck accident form. Its SR-1 instructions say it must be completed within 10 days after a Nevada truck accident that was not investigated at the scene by law enforcement. The form requires complete information for all drivers and vehicles. Its instructions require an insurance card effective on the truck accident date, a qualifying repair estimate or total-loss statement, and a doctor’s injury statement for each person injured in the reporting vehicle. Mail the signed, completed form to the DMV address printed on it. 3
The officer-report exception is specific. An SR-1 is not required when the truck accident was investigated by an officer and that officer’s report contains the insurer name and address, policy number, and coverage start and end dates for each person involved. Do not treat an officer’s presence alone as proof that the exception applies. 1
How to find or request the police truck accident record
Start with the agency that responded, not a statewide data site. Although DPS records officer truck accident data in a statewide repository, the official materials reviewed do not identify it as a public portal for individual reports. The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) expressly says that it does not have individual truck accident reports and directs people to the local law-enforcement agency that responded. 1
For a report handled by the Nevada State Police Highway Patrol, the official Highway Patrol page directs users to CrashDocs.org, a commercial portal expressly designated by the agency. The page says to have the NHP-prefixed truck accident number, the last name of an involved party, and the truck accident date. It states reports are available 7–14 days after the truck accident and cost $10 each. Fatal reports and truck accident photos are handled through the appropriate regional office; the stated photo fee is $5. 5
Nevada law separately requires the Highway Patrol and DPS Investigation Division, upon a written request from a person claiming truck accident damages, that person’s legal representative, or insurer, to provide the truck accident report and witness statements and photographs in its possession or control within seven days after the request and a reasonable reproduction fee. Exceptions include privileged or confidential material and truck accidents involving death or substantial bodily harm, failure to stop, or a felony. 6
Documents and identifiers to gather
Before requesting a record or completing SR-1, organize these items:
- For a report request: truck accident date, location, responding agency, truck accident or incident number, and the involved person’s last name. A Highway Patrol request uses the NHP-prefixed truck accident number. 5
- For SR-1: complete driver, owner, vehicle, and insurance information, including an insurance card effective on the truck accident date. 3
- For qualifying property damage or injury: the repair estimate or total-loss statement and injury documentation identified in the SR-1 instructions. 3
If the report is unavailable or held elsewhere
If Highway Patrol did not respond, request the report from the law-enforcement agency that did. This may be a city police department, county sheriff, campus or tribal police, or another agency with the incident record. NDOT directs people seeking individual reports to the local agency that responded. 4
For a Highway Patrol truck accident, use the official request path first. If the report is fatal or you need truck accident photos, contact the Highway Patrol regional office for the truck accident area. 5 For other DPS public-records requests, DPS offers an online GovQA request system and a mail/fax form. It asks for a specific record description and says copying costs may apply. 7
A public-records request cannot replace an agency that lacks custody of the record. Nevada’s public-records law requires an agency without legal custody or control to give written notice and, if known, identify the government entity that does. It also provides a five-business-day response framework for requests. 8
Official resources
- Nevada truck accident-reporting law: NRS Chapter 484E
- Nevada DMV truck accident forms page, including SR-1
- DMV SR-1 Report of Traffic Truck accident and instructions
- Nevada State Police Highway Patrol truck accident-report request
- Nevada Department of Transportation truck accident-data guidance
- Nevada DPS public-records request page
- AccidentFiling.ai guides and the car-accident evidence checklist
What changes when a truck is involved
Use this version when the involved vehicle is a truck. Record whether it was privately used or operated by a business or motor carrier; a pickup used personally is not automatically subject to federal motor-carrier requirements.
If a commercial motor carrier was involved, preserve the carrier name, USDOT or operating-authority number if available, truck and trailer identifiers, cargo information, employer or dispatch contact, and the driver’s insurance information. Commercial coverage and federal filing requirements vary by carrier, authority, cargo, and vehicle type.
- Photograph carrier names, USDOT numbers, unit numbers, plates, trailers, and cargo placards when safe.
- Use the crash-state agency procedure below for the police or state report.
- Use FMCSA carrier and insurance resources only when a covered motor carrier is involved.
Browse the Truck Accident Guides collection for related pages.
Accident-type official sources
- Insurance Filing Requirements — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- Company Safety Records — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration