Alaska Crash Reporting Requirements
In Alaska, the crash reporting threshold is $2,000 in damage. Deadline to file: 10 days. Submit to: Alaska DMV, plus the local police department if the crash was inside a municipality.
- Damage threshold
- $2,000
A crash must be reported if anyone is injured or killed, or if total property damage appears to reach $2,000. Note the lower figure that governs insurance proof: after a crash causing injury, death, or more than $501 of damage to one person's property, you must separately show DMV that you were insured, within 15 days (AS 28.22.021, 28.22.031).
- Deadline to file
- 10 days
Two duties, not one. Immediate notice comes first — by the quickest means of communication, to the local police if the crash was inside a municipality and otherwise to the Department of Public Safety. The written or electronic report follows within 10 days, and is not required at all if a peace officer investigated the crash. Failing to report is a misdemeanor punishable by up to $200 and 90 days, and DMV must suspend your license until the report is filed (AS 28.35.080, 28.35.110).
- Submit to
- Alaska DMV, plus the local police department if the crash was inside a municipality
The driver's report goes to the Department of Administration — that is, DMV — and to the municipal police department as well when the crash happened inside a municipality. DMV takes it as form 12-209, which can be filed through its online crash report service.
Alaska sets $2,000 — higher than 32 of the 44 jurisdictions on this site. The range runs from $250 to $4,000.
How Alaska compares with every other state
What this means after a crash
$2,000 is the number to keep in mind, and it is a damage figure rather than an injury one: a crash with no one hurt still has to be reported once the damage reaches it. Only 7 of the 44 that set a dollar figure start higher. Note what the threshold is measured against — apparent damage at the scene, not the final repair invoice — so the call has to be made before anyone has priced anything.
You have 10 days. 23 of the 43 with a day count give you less time, 8 give you more. The clock runs from the crash, not from the insurance claim or the repair estimate, and it keeps running while you wait to hear whether the police filed a report of their own.
Who receives it matters as much as when. In Alaska the report goes to Alaska DMV, plus the local police department if the crash was inside a municipality. An officer writing a report at the scene is not automatically the report the state is waiting for — where the two are separate, the table above says who receives yours.
Every statute cited for Alaska
Why the rule looks like this
- What Changed in 2026Liability minimums doubled in Hawaii, two states dropped pure comparative fault, New Hampshire stopped inspecting cars, and three crash reporting thresholds moved — a dated account of the 2026 changes, and the ones already signed for 2027 and beyond.
- The Crash You Are Required to Report Is Smaller Than You ThinkCrash-report triggers start at $500 in Georgia and New Jersey and reach $3,000 for a Virginia police report; Florida's is $500 before 1 October 2026 and $2,000 from that date, and Pennsylvania and Maryland use no dollar figure at all.
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Checked against the primary sources above on September 30, 2026. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it — what we have corrected so far is public.