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Wyoming Crash Reporting Requirements

Wyoming sets no dollar threshold for reporting a crash. Deadline to file: Immediately. Submit to: Local police inside a municipality, otherwise the highway patrol or the county sheriff.

Damage threshold
No dollar threshold

Until July 1, 2025 a driver owed immediate notice whenever apparent property damage to others reached $1,000. House Bill 25 of the 2025 session (Chapter 1) struck that test out of § 31-5-1105. As the section now reads, notice is owed only if the crash injures or kills someone, or leaves a vehicle "so disabled as to prevent its normal and safe operation". A dented but drivable car in a property-damage-only crash is no longer reportable. WYDOT's driver manual is still the 2021 edition and tells drivers to contact police for "property damage amounting to $1,000 or more" — that sentence describes the repealed rule.

Deadline to file
Immediately

Immediately, "by the quickest means of communication". There is no filing window because Wyoming has no driver-filed crash report at all: House Bill 152 of 2013 (Chapter 102) repealed § 31-5-1106(a) and (b) and § 31-5-1107(a) and (c), which were the driver's written report provisions. What survives for the driver is the § 31-5-1103 duty to stop, give name, address and plate number and render aid, and the § 31-5-1105 duty to telephone. The ten-day clock belongs to the investigating officer under § 31-5-1106(c). If the driver is physically unable to call, § 31-5-1107(b) moves the duty to another occupant of the vehicle.

Submit to
Local police inside a municipality, otherwise the highway patrol or the county sheriff

Section 31-5-1105(a). The officer who investigates then forwards a written report to the highway department within ten days under § 31-5-1106(c) — but since July 1, 2025 only when the crash caused bodily injury or death, or left a vehicle disabled. That narrowing reaches further than crash statistics: § 31-9-202(a) gives the division thirty days from receipt of that officer's report to suspend the license and every registration of an uninsured driver or owner involved, so fewer officer reports means fewer of those suspensions. Failing to give the notice is punishable under § 31-5-1201(j): up to $200 and 20 days for a first conviction, up to $300 and 30 days for a second within a year, up to $500 and six months for a third.

How Wyoming compares with every other state

What this means after a crash

Wyoming does not use a dollar figure at all, which trips up drivers who have moved from a state that does. There is no repair estimate to compare against. What matters is the kind of crash — injury, death, a vehicle towed away — and the table above is the whole test.

The deadline is not a number of days. Wyoming wants the report immediately, which in practice means from the scene or as soon as you are able. A clock that starts and ends the same day leaves no room to "get to it later", and that is the most common way an ordinary crash turns into a charge of its own.

Who receives it matters as much as when. In Wyoming the report goes to Local police inside a municipality, otherwise the highway patrol or the county sheriff. 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.

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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.