Virginia Crash Reporting Requirements
In Virginia, the crash reporting threshold is $3,000 in damage. Submit to: Law enforcement — immediately if anyone is hurt.
- Damage threshold
- $3,000
A police officer who investigates a crash must send DMV a written report when anyone is injured or killed or total property damage appears to be $3,000 or more (§ 46.2-373). The figure was $1,500 until HB 2256 (2025 Acts ch. 255) raised it.
- Submit to
- Law enforcement — immediately if anyone is hurt
The driver must immediately notify a law-enforcement officer of any crash causing injury or death (§ 46.2-371). After a crash that injures someone or damages an attended vehicle or property, the driver must stop and give their name, address, license and registration numbers to the police or to the other party (§ 46.2-894). A driver's own written report to DMV is optional (§ 46.2-372).
Virginia sets $3,000 — higher than 40 of the 44 jurisdictions on this site. The range runs from $250 to $4,000.
How Virginia compares with every other state
What this means after a crash
$3,000 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 1 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.
Who receives it matters as much as when. In Virginia the report goes to Law enforcement — immediately if anyone is hurt. 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 Virginia
What changed
July 1, 2025
Police crash-report threshold raised from $1,500 to $3,000
HB 2256 (2025 Acts ch. 255) amended § 46.2-373 so an investigating officer must send DMV a written report only when someone is injured or killed or apparent property damage reaches $3,000, up from $1,500.
Virginia LIS — 2025 Acts of Assembly ch. 255
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 22, 2026. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it — what we have corrected so far is public.