Crash report duties — North Dakota Permit Test
Crash report duties on the North Dakota permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
In North Dakota, a crash must be reported if the combined damage is $4,000 or more, or if anyone is injured or killed.
Police reports on serious crashes help sort out who is at fault and get help to anyone who is hurt.
If you are involved in a crash that results in the combined damage of $4,000 or more, or results in personal injury or death, you must:
If a reportable crash happens in a city, you must immediately report it to the local police.
The local police are the ones who can reach a crash inside a city fastest and make the report.
Immediately report it to the local police if you are in a city.
If a reportable crash happens outside city limits, you must immediately report it to the Highway Patrol or the County Sheriff's Office.
Outside a city there are no city police, so the state and county officers cover those roads.
Immediately report it to the Highway Patrol or the County Sheriff’s Office if you are outside city limits.
In all crashes involving injury or damage, the drivers must exchange their names, addresses, motor vehicle insurance companies and policy numbers.
Without each other's details and insurance, neither driver can get the damage or injuries paid for.
In all crashes involving injury or damage, the drivers must exchange the following information: driver’s name, address, motor vehicle insurance company, and policy number.
If the driver is physically unable to give notice of a crash and is not the owner, the owner must give notice and insurance information within 5 days after learning of the crash.
Someone has to report a crash even when the driver is too badly hurt to do it, and the owner is the next person who can.
Whenever the driver is physically incapable of giving notice of a crash and also is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved shall, within five days after learning of the crash, give notice and insurance information not given by the driver.
On the test
Above what combined damage must a crash with no injuries be reported to police in North Dakota?
$4,000 or more. Police reports on serious crashes help sort out who is at fault and get help to anyone who is hurt. North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual, p.27: “If you are involved in a crash that results in the combined damage of $4,000 or more, or results in personal injury or death, you must:”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual, published by the North Dakota Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/ND.pdf (North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual, 2025-2027, Revised 2025, North Dakota Department of Transportation, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/ND.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- https://www.dot.nd.gov/driver/noncommercial-driver-license-manual (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)
- https://www.dot.nd.gov/driver/driver-license (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark for the Class D knowledge test)
- https://ndlegis.gov/information/acdata/pdf/37-03-01.pdf (N.D. Admin. Code chapter 37-03-01 and the rest of article 37-03, read 2026-10-04; states no knowledge-test figure)
- https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t39c06.pdf (NDCC chapter 39-06, read 2026-10-04; section 39-06-13 sets what the examination covers and states no figure)