Orlando Crash Report Finder

The fastest route for any Central Florida crash is the Florida Crash Portal at https://services.flhsmv.gov/crashportal/, FLHSMV's statewide repository: every Florida law enforcement agency files its crash reports there, so it works whether FHP, the Orlando Police Department, or the Orange, Seminole or Osceola County Sheriff's Office responded. Search by name and date or by report number; the fee is $10 per report under FL § 321.23 plus a $2 convenience fee per transaction. The alternative is the responding agency's records unit in person or by mail, with photo ID and a signed sworn statement.

The exchange-of-information slip the officer handed you names the agency and usually the report number; the officer's uniform and vehicle markings are the other clue. As a rule of thumb: I-4, SR 408, SR 417, SR 528 and the Turnpike are Florida Highway Patrol; streets inside the Orlando city limits are OPD; unincorporated Orange County — Pine Hills, Dr. Phillips, most of the I-Drive corridor south of the Beachline — is the Orange County Sheriff's Office; and the Seminole and Osceola sheriffs cover their unincorporated areas, with city departments in Kissimmee, Sanford, Winter Park, Apopka and the rest. If you do not know, the state portal searches all of them at once.

FLHSMV says reports may take up to 10 days to become available after the officer files them. A report involving injuries, a hospital transport, a fatality or an ongoing investigation can take longer, and a report is sometimes filed under a slightly different date than the crash. If the portal returns nothing after ten days, confirm the agency and the date before concluding no report exists.

Under FL § 316.066(2), a crash report is confidential and exempt from public disclosure for 60 days after it is filed, except to the parties involved, their legal representatives, their licensed insurers, prosecutors, victim-services programs, news media for news-gathering purposes, and the other requesters the statute lists. Those requesters obtain it immediately with a sworn statement (form HSMV 94010) and photo ID. After the window the report is a public record. Unlawfully obtaining, or attempting to obtain, the confidential personal information in a report is a criminal offense.

Then no crash report was written, and the route is a driver's self-report: download the Driver Report of a Traffic Crash from FLHSMV, complete it, and submit it by email to SelfReportCrashes@flhsmv.gov or by mail to FLHSMV Crash Records in Tallahassee. File it promptly — a self-report submitted weeks later invites the other driver's insurer to question it — and gather the photographs, the other driver's information and any witness names yourself, because there is no officer's narrative to rely on.

Contact the reporting officer through the agency's records unit and ask for a supplemental report or a correction. Factual errors — a misspelled name, a wrong plate, the wrong lane or direction of travel, a missing passenger — are routinely corrected. The officer's opinion on fault is harder to change and, at trial, generally not admissible in any event; what decides fault is the physical evidence, the witnesses and the vehicles, not the box the officer checked.

You can open the claim without it, and you should not wait: your own PIP claim should be reported promptly, and Florida's 14-day rule on initial medical treatment runs from the crash whether or not a report exists. The report is what the adjusters will read first, though, so get it as soon as it posts and read it the way they will — every code, the diagram, the narrative and the citation section — before you give a recorded statement.