How to get a car accident report in Florida
Florida provides crash reports statewide through Florida Crash Portal (FLHSMV "Florida's Official Crash Portal" / Buy Florida Crash Reports) — including crashes handled by local police and county sheriffs.
Official source
Florida Crash Portal (FLHSMV "Florida's Official Crash Portal" / Buy Florida Crash Reports)
Official Florida crash-report source — $10.00 per report + $2.00 convenience fee per transaction (max 10 reports per transaction). Covers agencies statewide.
Open the official portal→Source: Florida — Florida Crash Portal (FLHSMV "Florida's Official Crash Portal" / Buy Florida Crash Reports). Checked 2026-07-24. Details can change — always confirm with the official source.
Step by step
- Open the Florida Crash Portal and accept the terms. Go to services.flhsmv.gov/CrashReportPurchasing and read/accept the confidentiality notice (s. 316.066) and $10 + $2 fee statement.
- Certify your eligibility. Within 60 days of the crash you must select your role and complete a sworn statement affirming you are an authorized party (e.g., an involved driver/owner, their attorney, or their insurer). After 60 days broader access is allowed.
- Search for your report. Enter the crash date, county, and location plus the last name of a driver/owner involved, or the crash report number if you have it. Note reports are not searchable until about 10 days after the crash, since agencies have 10 days to submit.
- Add to cart and pay. Add the report(s) to your cart (up to 10 per transaction) and pay $10 per report plus a $2 convenience fee by credit card (Amex, MasterCard, Visa, Discover).
- Download the report. The report is available immediately as a ZIP of PDFs; a download link is emailed and must be used within 48 hours. (Mail/in-person requests via an FHP Troop Station or the Tallahassee Crash Records office take 4-6 weeks.)
State police / highway patrol crashes
Florida Highway Patrol is a division of FLHSMV, so FHP-investigated crashes are in the same Florida Crash Portal (services.flhsmv.gov/CrashReportPurchasing) — there is no separate state-police system. Alternatively, request in person at the FHP Troop Station nearest where the crash occurred, or mail a signed statement to the FLHSMV Crash Records office in Tallahassee (Kirkman Building). Contact: CrashRecords@flhsmv.gov or 850-617-3416, Option 1. Mail/in-person requests take about 4-6 weeks versus immediate online download.
Crashes handled by local police or sheriffs
Same statewide path. FLHSMV is the state's official repository for crash records, and Florida law (s. 316.066) requires every law enforcement agency — Florida Highway Patrol, city police departments, and county sheriffs — to submit their long-form crash reports to FLHSMV within 10 days. So for a crash handled by a local city PD or county sheriff, the person uses the same Florida Crash Portal (services.flhsmv.gov/CrashReportPurchasing); there is no separate per-agency portal to hunt down. Caveats: a report may not appear for ~10 days after the crash, and if it is a driver self-report (short form) or hasn't been submitted yet, contact the responding agency's records unit directly. Some local agencies additionally sell reports at their own records counter or via a third-party vendor, but the state portal is the unified route.
Florida agencies (50)
Pick the agency that responded to your crash for its exact request process:
- Boynton Beach Police Department
- Cape Coral Police Department
- Clay County Sheriff'S Office
- Clearwater Fl Pd - Hq
- Davenport Police Department
- Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety
- Doral Police Department
- Fernandina Beach Police Department
- Florida City Police Department
- Florida Gulf Coast University Police Department
- Green Cove Springs Pd
- Gulfport Police Department
- Haines City Police Dept
- Jacksonville Aviation Authority Police Department
- Key Biscayne Police Department
- Lake Clarke Shores Police Department
- Lake Co So
- Leon County Sheriff'S Office
- Ln Test Florida Pd
- Martin County Sheriff'S Office
- Melbourne Beach Police Department
- Miami Beach Police Department
- Miami-Dade Sheriff'S Office
- Nassau County Sheriff'S Office
- North Bay Village Police Department
- North Miami Pd
- Palm Beach Gardens Police Department
- Palm Beach Shores Police Department
- Pensacola Pd
- Pinecrest Pd
- Polk County So
- Ponce Inlet Police Department
- Port Orange Police Department
- Sanford Airport Police Department
- Sanford Police Dept.
- Santa Fe College Police Department
- Sarasota Police Department
- South Daytona Police Department
- St Johns Co So
- St. Cloud Police Department
- Stuart Police Department
- Tallahassee Pd
- Tavares Police Department
- Titusville Police Department
- Union County Sheriff Office
- Univ of South Florida Pd - Tampa
- University of North Florida Pd
- West Palm Beach Police Department
- Winter Haven Police Dept
- Zephyrhills Fl Pd
After you get the report
Use the report to file and support your insurance claim — it captures the parties, vehicles, insurance and plate info, any citations, and the officer's narrative and diagram, which insurers rely on to assess fault. Review it carefully for errors (misspelled names, wrong insurance/policy or plate numbers, incorrect crash location, or mistaken fault/contributing-cause coding); if something is wrong, ask the investigating agency to issue a correction or supplemental report, since an error can affect your claim.