Crash reports — Illinois Permit Test

Regardless of fault, a crash report must be filed where the crash involves death, bodily injury, or property damage of more than $1,500.

Fault is settled later, and the report is what starts that. The dollar figure is what decides whether the state ever hears about it.

Regardless of fault, a crash report must be filed by the driver of a vehicle if the crash involves death, bodily injury, or property damage of more than $1,500.

Where any vehicle in the crash is uninsured, a report must be filed if property damage is more than $500.

An uninsured car makes the threshold a third of the usual one, because there is no insurer to sort it out.

If any vehicle involved in the crash is uninsured, a report must be filed if property damage is more than $500 or more.

A report must be filed for any crash involving a school bus that causes property damage or personal injury, and for a crash within 50 feet of a school bus that injures or kills somebody boarding or leaving it.

A school bus crash is reported whatever the damage, and the fifty-foot rule covers the child hit walking to it.

A report must be filed if the crash involves a school bus and results in any property damage, personal injury, or crash. A report must also be filed if a crash occurs within 50 feet of a school bus, causing personal injury or death to any person waiting to board the school bus or who had just exited the school bus.

A driver has 30 minutes to report a crash after it happens.

Half an hour is short, and it starts at the crash rather than when you get home. Waiting to think it over runs the clock out.

A driver has 30 minutes to report a crash after it occurs.

Where no officer is at the scene a report must be made at the nearest police station as soon as possible, or to the county sheriff or Illinois State Police in a rural area.

Nobody coming to you does not mean nothing has to be reported. The place to go depends on where the crash was.

If an officer is not at the scene of the crash, a report must be made at the nearest police station as soon as possible. If in a rural area, the county sheriff or Illinois State Police must be notified.

Where the driver cannot make the crash report and there is a passenger, the passenger must make it.

An injured driver cannot file anything. The duty moves to whoever else was in the car rather than disappearing.

If the driver is unable to make the report and there is a passenger, the passenger must make the report.

A driver who fails to report a vehicle crash may be fined up to $2,500 and jailed for up to one year.

Not reporting is its own offense with its own penalty, whatever happened in the crash itself.

Drivers who fail to report a vehicle crash may be fined up to $2,500 and given a jail sentence of up to one year.

Above what property damage must an Illinois crash be reported?

More than $1,500. Fault is settled later, and the report is what starts that. The dollar figure is what decides whether the state ever hears about it. Illinois Rules of the Road 2026, p.54: “Regardless of fault, a crash report must be filed by the driver of a vehicle if the crash involves death, bodily injury, or property damage of more than $1,500.”