Connecticut Crash Reporting Requirements
In Connecticut, the crash reporting threshold is $1,000 in damage. Deadline to file: 5 days. Submit to: Investigating police officer files with the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
- Damage threshold
- $1,000
The official report is triggered when anyone is killed or injured, or when the property of any one individual — including the driver's own — takes more than $1,000 of damage.
- Deadline to file
- 5 days
This is the investigating officer's deadline: the report must be completed and forwarded to the Commissioner of Transportation within five days of finishing the investigation. There is no deadline for drivers, because Connecticut has no driver-filed crash report — § 14-108, which once required one, is repealed.
- Submit to
- Investigating police officer files with the Connecticut Department of Transportation
There is no form for a driver to mail in. What the law asks of a driver happens at the scene: stop, give whatever help is needed, and give your name, address, license number and registration number to the injured person or property owner, or to an officer or witness. If you cannot, report the crash at once to a police officer, constable, state police officer, motor vehicle inspector, or the nearest police station.
Connecticut sets $1,000 — higher than 10 of the 44 jurisdictions on this site. The range runs from $250 to $4,000.
How Connecticut compares with every other state
What this means after a crash
$1,000 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 10 of the 44 that set a dollar figure start lower. 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 5 days. 18 of the 43 with a day count give you less time, 20 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 Connecticut the report goes to Investigating police officer files with the Connecticut Department of Transportation. 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 Connecticut
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 27, 2026. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it — what we have corrected so far is public.