Then we are gonna talk about each and every heading of that police report. Let’s just jump straight into it, and go from there. Here it is. This is a Missouri uniform crash report. Your crash report from the cities St. Louis county and across Missouri will look pretty much as same as this one. For demonstration purposes, this one is from St. Charles County police department. Let’s keep track of our progress by this number.
Numer 1 you are gonna the general crash information. #
That’s gonna be on your first page. You’re gonna get a Crash date, crash time, when the police were notified, what type of roadway, any photos were taken.
Number 2 – It’s gonna give us a location as to where the accident happened. #
This one happened in St. Charless County crossroads, or St. Peters Howl RD and Central School RD. It will give us the speed limit and so on. It will give us extra information. If you really want to dig deeper which way the roads are going, what kind of intersection it is, road surfaces, light conditions.
Number 3 – Damage to property other than vehicles. #
Here there wasn’t any, but just in case if you hit like, fence on the side of the road or street sign, light it will give us the information. And it will give us who is responsible for it.
Number 4 – Witnesses. #
This is a big one. In most instances, we have this one as being blank. Even though sometimes police officers do talk to people at the scene. I don’t know why they don’t add their names and phone numbers to the police report. You would be surprised as to how many I’ve seen where the client of mine says: “Fifteen people stop they gave all their names and phone numbers”- and I said did you get it? They are like – No, but police officers got it, and you see this and it’s not there.
Number 5 – If a pedestrian is involved. #
In this instance, there wasn’t. You’re gonna get the name. Their date of birth, sex and where they crossing the road with the signal, against the signal. All extra information that the police officers are able to get at the scene.
Number 6 – It will give us a collision of the accident. #
In this instance, the collision was pretty accurate. The diagram was pretty accurate. I’ve seen these diagrams way off. They will have, vehicles mixed up, directions mixed up. Take these with a grain of salt.
Number 7 – This is the identifying assault information. #
We will have drivers names, phone numbers, address, driver’s licence numbers, their dates of birth. The insurance company that they are with. Their phone number, the policy number, who the owner of the vehicle is. That is kinda the important information that we need, so we can start digging deeper. It will have driver one and it will have driver two. If there are more than two drivers involved, they will have additional pages for that. It will give us the names of occupants. If there were any other people in the vehicle besides drivers. This is an important one.
Narrative statement. That’s number 8. #
They use codes on here to kinda shorten their work. But number nine is actually important for us. It will give us narrative as to what the police officer encountered, what he was told how the accident happened and the statement of the drivers. Again, take this with a grain of salt. Sometimes, my client will say: “Well I never said that.” Or said that the police officer never talked to me as to how the accident happened. One of the reasons that the police is actually not admissible into evidence is if we are trying a case. It’s basically hearsay because the police officer wasn’t there to see, feel, hear when the accident happened. He is just getting his information second hand from the people that were involved in the accident. This is kind what a police report looks like after the car accident in Missouri.
Accident referral card #
A lot of people think it’s just that accident referral card that they get at the scene. Their names, and then the other driver’s name. But no. That’s just the accident referral card. They will give you a police report number. Which is also in the upper right-hand corner. Then we can order the police record to get all this additional information.
Hope this helps. If you have any other questions for me, give me a call at 314-352-6800. You guys have yourself a wonderful rest.
Bajric & Ramic Law Office
Nedim Ramic – Auto Accident Lawyer – Personal Injury Attorney
