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Columbus Division of Police electronic accident (crash) reports are submitted to the Ohio Department of Public Safety (ODPS). Accident reports are available on the ODPS website once they have been submitted and accepted.
If you have been involved in an accident, and need to file a Crash Report, please read and follow the below instructions: Be sure that the accident occurred within the geographical boundaries of the City of Columbus.
The Ohio Department of Public Safety receives crash reports on public roadways from all law enforcement agencies in Ohio for statistical purposes only. Once we receive the crash report, it will be available on our crash report search website. Crash reports may take up to six weeks to be available.
Find crash reports by crash number, document number, date, county, agency or name. Crash reports are available for past five years plus current year, but may be affected by 2019 changes.
If you've been involved in an accident, and need to file a crash report, please read the below instructions. Be sure that the accident occurred within the Franklin County limits. You cannot file a report with the Franklin County Sheriff's office if the accident did not occur within Franklin County.
We maintain crash reports and photographs from crashes investigated by the Ohio State Highway Patrol and criminal investigation reports taken by troopers and Ohio Investigative Unit agents.
filing online traffic crash reports: You may enter information into an online form that you will then print off in order to mail, or bring into, CPD Headquarters for filing your accident report.
