Nebraska Crash Reporting Requirements
In Nebraska, the crash reporting threshold is $2,000 in damage. Deadline to file: 10 days. Submit to: Nebraska Department of Transportation.
- Damage threshold
- $2,000
Apparent damage of $2,000 or more to the property of any one person triggers the duty, and so does any injury or death whatever the damage figure. The line was $1,500 until LB1126 raised it on July 18, 2026, and the DMV prints both numbers by crash date. One exception swallows most crashes: no driver's report is required at all if a peace officer investigated, because the officer files it instead.
- Deadline to file
- 10 days
Ten days from the crash for the driver's report, or from the day the owner learns of it if the driver is physically unable to file. Investigating officers have the same ten days. The report comes in two parts — Part I is the Department of Transportation's account of the crash, Part II tells the DMV whether liability insurance was in force — and failing to file, or getting the information wrong, is a Class V misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $100.
- Submit to
- Nebraska Department of Transportation
The driver's report goes to the Department of Transportation, not to the DMV and not to the local police. Transportation then classifies the crash and sends Part II on to the DMV electronically. That is where the consequence lives: if the DMV concludes there is a reasonable possibility of a judgment against you and you have shown no proof of financial responsibility for the crash, it suspends your license — and a nonresident's privilege to drive here — until you post security, produce a release, or prove coverage. At the scene itself, a separate statute requires you to stop and give your name, address, telephone number and operator's license number, and to leave a written notice if the property you hit is unattended.
Nebraska sets $2,000 — higher than 32 of the 44 jurisdictions on this site. The range runs from $250 to $4,000.
How Nebraska 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 Nebraska the report goes to Nebraska 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 Nebraska
What changed
July 18, 2026
The crash reporting threshold went from $1,500 to $2,000 — and the same number decides whether the DMV suspends your license
LB1126 (2026) raised the apparent-damage figure from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars in four places at once, effective July 18, 2026: § 60-699, the driver's duty to report a crash to the Department of Transportation within ten days; § 60-695, the investigating officer's duty to file a report; § 60-507, the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act suspension the DMV must impose on an operator who gives no proof of financial responsibility after a crash; and § 60-513, the floor on the security deposit the department may demand. The threshold therefore does two jobs, and both moved together — it is the line above which a crash must be reported, and the line above which failing to show coverage costs a Nebraskan the license. The DMV's Accident Suspensions page now prints both numbers side by side, $1,500 for crashes before July 18, 2026 and $2,000 on or after, which is the clearest sign that guides still quoting $1,500 are describing crashes that happened last year.
2026 LB1126, final reading — an act relating to law; to amend sections ... 60-507, 60-513, 60-695 ... and 60-699
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 28, 2026. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it — what we have corrected so far is public.