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How to get a car accident report in New Jersey

New Jersey provides state-police crash reports through NJSP Crash Reports Request (New Jersey State Police / NJ Turnpike Authority). Crashes handled by local police or county sheriffs are requested from the responding agency (listed below).

Official source

NJSP Crash Reports Request (New Jersey State Police / NJ Turnpike Authority)

Official New Jersey crash-report source — $13.00 non-toll roadway & boat crash reports; $5.00 toll-road reports (NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, Atlantic City Expressway); $20.00 serious/fatal investigation reports, photos, digital media & statements ($5.00 per photo print, up to 10). State-police crashes; locals request from the responding agency.

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Source: New Jersey — NJSP Crash Reports Request (New Jersey State Police / NJ Turnpike Authority). Checked 2026-07-24. Details can change — always confirm with the official source.

Step by step

  1. Identify the investigating agency. Determine who responded to the crash: the New Jersey State Police / NJ Turnpike Authority (state highways, NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, Atlantic City Expressway, boat crashes) versus a local municipal police department or county agency. The retrieval path differs.
  2. For a State Police crash, use the online NJSP portal. Go to the official NJSP Crash Reports Request portal at https://www.njportal.com/njsp/crashreports/ and select the report type (roadway non-toll, toll road, or boat crash).
  3. Search for your report. Search by the crash date, county, and municipality/roadway, plus a driver name or the report (case) number. Note that a report is not searchable until it has been completed and approved by the agency.
  4. Pay the fee and download. Pay by credit/debit card ($13.00 non-toll roadway or boat, $5.00 toll road, $20.00 serious/fatal investigation report). You receive an email when it is ready, and roadway reports remain available to download for 14 days.
  5. For a local police crash, request from that department. If a municipal PD or county agency investigated the crash, submit a records/OPRA request to that department's records bureau instead — in person, by mail, or through the department's own online system.

State police / highway patrol crashes

New Jersey State Police-investigated crashes (state highways, NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, Atlantic City Expressway, and boat crashes) are obtained through the official NJSP Crash Reports Request portal at https://www.njportal.com/njsp/crashreports/. Select the report type, search by crash date / county / municipality (or the report/case number), pay by card ($13.00 non-toll roadway or boat; $5.00 toll road), and download the report within 14 days. Serious/fatal investigation reports, photographs, and digital media cost $20.00 and are only available once the investigation report has been completed and approved. The official NJSP site (njsp.njoag.gov) links directly to this same portal as its crash-report path.

Crashes handled by local police or sheriffs

New Jersey has NO single statewide portal for locally-investigated crashes — the NJSP njportal service covers only State Police / NJ Turnpike Authority crashes (state highways, Turnpike, Parkway, AC Expressway, boat). For a crash investigated by a municipal police department or county agency, request the report directly from that department's records bureau: file an OPRA (Open Public Records Act) request form, or request in person or by mail. Per N.J.S.A. 39:4-131, in-person copies are charged at the OPRA copy rate and mail/fax requests may add up to $5.00 for administrative costs. Some NJ departments additionally offer online purchase through third-party vendors (LexisNexis BuyCrash / crashdocs.org, or Carfax police-report portals), but there is no uniform statewide vendor for local reports — routing is agency-by-agency.

New Jersey agencies (149)

Pick the agency that responded to your crash for its exact request process:

After you get the report

Use the report to file your auto-insurance claim and to establish fault/liability. Review it carefully for errors — driver and vehicle details, license plates, insurance information, the crash diagram, and contributing-factor codes — and ask the reporting agency to correct any mistakes, since insurers and attorneys rely on the officer's report.