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After a car accident in Phoenix
Find the right place to request your crash report, explore local law firms and get your next steps organized in Phoenix.
By SettlementLift. Published · Updated .
Finding the right local record
Phoenix’s records portal lists Traffic Crash separately from incident reports, body-camera material and photographs. Select the record type you need and identify the Phoenix case reference. A crash-report copy and additional investigative media may require separate requests.
Phoenix Police: Public records ↗Right-of-way and oversize vehicle permits
Phoenix’s right-of-way service distinguishes city oversize/overweight vehicle permissions and requests the route and ADOT permit information for that process. If an unusually large load is involved, preserve any permit identifiers and the exact city street. State-highway permission and city-route review are not interchangeable. Not every commercial truck is an oversize load, so do not infer a permit violation from appearance alone.
Phoenix: Right-of-way and oversize vehicle permits ↗A separate national fatal-crash measure
Our NHTSA FARS extraction for the Phoenix, Arizona city-code area records 267 fatal crashes, 279 fatalities and 18 fatal crashes involving a large truck in 2024. It uses the first annual release dated April 1, 2026. The city-code area is not the county or metropolitan area. State and local publications may differ in definitions and release dates; do not add their counts, replace one with the other or treat a difference as an error.
NHTSA: 2024 FARS national CSV archive ↗How to read a city count
The figures describe records assigned to the exact FARS city code, rather than every crash associated with a mailing address or surrounding county. Records with unknown or other location codes may not be assigned to this city. A zero in a truck subset means no matching records in this extraction, not proof that no truck accident occurred. Counts alone do not measure comparative driving risk.
NHTSA: FARS analytical user manual ↗Keep the report and your own documents together
Save the agency and report reference, original photos you already have, insurer correspondence and receipts. For a truck crash, record identifiers visible in existing images and ask a lawyer whether other records need preservation. Do not return to an unsafe scene or assume truck involvement establishes responsibility.
Questions about attorneys and financial options
Ask whether a lawyer handles the particular accident and jurisdiction, who would work on the matter and how fees and expenses are calculated. Ask about applicable deadlines directly. If you are waiting for a case to resolve, compare billing arrangements and funding alternatives using written costs. Neither the local crash count nor a lawyer’s advertised result predicts your recovery.