Where do I get a copy of my crash report?
From the agency that wrote it, which is usually the state department of transportation or public safety rather than the department that attended. Most states publish an online portal, charge a small fee, and make the report available a few days after the crash. Your state is below with its own link.
How this works, and where the numbers come from
Each entry is that state's own published process, with the agency's page linked and the date somebody last checked it. Fees and waiting times are the ones the agency publishes, and they change; the date beside each one says how recently it was read.
The report is usually held by a statewide records system rather than by the department whose officer attended, which is the part that sends people to the wrong counter. A city department can sell you a copy of the report it wrote, but it cannot give you one written by a county sheriff or a state trooper.
The report is a starting point, not a verdict. An officer's opinion about who was at fault is not binding on anybody, and reports carry errors: the wrong direction of travel, a missing witness, a mistaken plate. Your state page explains how to ask for a correction.
The other lookups, and the cases they belong to
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