Get Your Atlanta Crash Report

The agency listed on the driver-exchange slip or case card the officer handed you is the one holding your report. Inside city limits that is usually the Atlanta Police Department; on interstates overnight and on weekends, and on many highways outside the city, it is the Georgia State Patrol. Suburbs such as Decatur, Sandy Springs, Chamblee, Brookhaven, and East Point run their own records units. Keep the case or report number — every request starts there.

Where it lives on the form: header block — report number, filing date, agency of record.

Most Georgia local agencies, including Atlanta PD, distribute crash reports electronically through LexisNexis BuyCrash, where you search by name, date, report number, or crash location and pay online. Reports written by the Georgia State Patrol come from the Department of Public Safety instead — through the DPS EPORTS open-records portal or the local State Patrol post. You can also pick up an Atlanta PD report in person at the Central Records Unit, 3493 Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy NW, weekdays during posted hours. Georgia law limits who may obtain a crash report, so be ready to show you were involved or are otherwise entitled to it.

Where it lives on the form: collision type, contributing factors, injury severity per unit.

Check the diagram, the direction of travel, the contributing-factor codes, the insurance information, and the injury severity marked for every occupant. Then save a copy for yourself. The adjuster on the other side will read the same document looking for reasons to pay less, so know what it says before they quote it back to you.

Where it lives on the form: insurer of record and whether a statement is already on file.