Oregon Crash Reporting Requirements
In Oregon, the crash reporting threshold is $2,500 in damage. Deadline to file: 3 days. Submit to: Oregon DMV.
- Damage threshold
- $2,500
A report is due if anyone was injured or killed, if damage to any one person's property is over $2,500, or if any vehicle is towed from the scene and any vehicle has over $2,500 in damage. The figure rose from $1,500 on January 1, 2018; ODOT may raise it every five years for inflation but has not done so.
- Deadline to file
- 3 days
72 hours from the crash. DMV asks you to file as soon as possible if you miss that window, because the law requires DMV to issue a suspension notice when no report arrives (ORS 811.725, 809.417).
- Submit to
- Oregon DMV
The Oregon Traffic Collision and Insurance Report goes to DMV, online through DMV2U or on paper to the DMV Crash Reporting Unit in Salem. You must file it even when police also filed a report, which is the opposite of the rule in most states, and the same form certifies that you were insured at the time.
Oregon sets $2,500 — higher than 37 of the 44 jurisdictions on this site. The range runs from $250 to $4,000.
How Oregon compares with every other state
What this means after a crash
$2,500 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 4 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 3 days. 14 of the 43 with a day count give you less time, 26 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 Oregon the report goes to Oregon DMV. 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 Oregon
What changed
January 1, 2018
Crash report threshold raised from $1,500 to $2,500
SB 35 raised the property damage figure in ORS 811.720 and ORS 811.745 from $1,500 to $2,500. ODOT may raise it again every five years to track the regional consumer price index, but has not done so, so $2,500 is still the current threshold.
2017 Or. Laws ch. 189 (SB 35) § 1
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.