Miami-Dade County
In Miami, many separate police departments work crashes across Miami-Dade County. The City of Miami Police Department serves the city itself, and the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office handles the unincorporated parts of the county. Get medical care, then write down the agency name and the case number the officer gives you, and photograph the cars and the street.
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Where this comes from
We checked these original sources on September 5, 2026. Each link opens the source so you can read it for yourself.
Original links
Florida Crash Portal
Traffic Incidents
Police Department
Request Reports and Records
City of Miami Police Department and the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office
Miami-Dade County has many police departments. The first job is to work out which one wrote your report.
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The City of Miami Police Department is the city's own department, and the city site lists its headquarters address and its non emergency line. Look at the crash form the officer gave you and read the agency name printed on it before you request anything.
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The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office says a traffic crash report may be requested in person or by mail, and its page links an online public records center. For a mailed request, the office asks you to complete and notarize its sworn statement form and send it with the request.
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Florida crash reports also land in the state crash portal. There you confirm you are allowed to get the report, search for it, and pay the fee the portal lists. The portal emails a download link that expires, so save the file right away.
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Florida troopers say it is not common practice for FHP to work incidents inside city limits. On the Palmetto, the Dolphin or the Turnpike outside a city, a trooper may have written the report instead. The agency name on your crash form settles it.
Florida Highway PatrolAgencies change their forms, portals and fees. Open the linked page before you pay for anything, and keep a copy of every request you send.
Federal fatal-crash counts, 2022 to 2024
That is 9.2% of every fatal crash the federal file records in the state over the same three years.
These are crashes in which at least one person died within 30 days, as counted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They are not a count of all crashes, injuries, insurance claims or lawsuits, and most crashes are not in this file at all.
The counts are not adjusted for population, road miles or how much people drive, so they cannot say one place is more dangerous than another. A crash appearing here does not show who was at fault, whether anyone was insured or whether anyone has a claim.
Questions
First check the crash form for the agency name. If the City of Miami Police Department answered, start with that department. If the crash was outside a city, the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office holds it. Florida crash reports also show up in the state crash portal, where you search and download a copy.
The report itself is written in English by the officer who worked the crash. The state crash portal switches between English and Spanish, so you can follow the request steps in Spanish. You can also do a free case check in Spanish and send a copy of the report with it.
Check the agency name on your crash form. Florida troopers say it is not common practice for FHP to work incidents inside city limits, so a city department may hold a highway report. Outside a city, a trooper often writes it, and that report goes into the state crash portal like the others.
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