How to Get a Bowling Green Accident Report (Bowling Green Police Department)

If you don’t have the report number, contact the records office listed above.

Option 1: Online

1. Go to BuyCrash, choose Kentucky and select the Bowling Green Police Department.
2. Search with your report information and pay the fee shown at checkout.

Option 2: In person

1. Visit the Central Records Unit at 911 Kentucky St., Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (closed weekends and holidays).
2. It helps to bring your report number and a photo ID.
3. Pay the $5 fee.

Option 3: By mail

Mail your request to Bowling Green Police Department, 911 Kentucky St., Bowling Green, KY 42101. Include:

• your report number
• the driver’s name
• the date and location of the crash
• a copy of your driver’s license
• the $5 fee
• a self-addressed stamped envelope

BGPD handles crashes inside Bowling Green city limits. Crashes elsewhere in Warren County may be worked by the Warren County Sheriff’s Office or Kentucky State Police, and crashes on the Western Kentucky University campus may be worked by WKU Police. Ask the agency whose officer came to the scene.

No officer came? If no police officer investigated and the crash caused more than $500 in property damage, Kentucky law requires the drivers to file a written report with Kentucky State Police within 10 days (KRS 189.635(5)). KSP takes these civilian reports through its online Civilian Collision Reporting portal. The system gives you a report number and the option to download your report, so save a copy right away. See our Kentucky State Police accident report guide for details.

Kentucky crash reports are not open to the public. Under KRS 189.635(6), police may release a report only to:

• the people involved in the crash
• parents or guardians of a minor involved in the crash
• the insurers of anyone named in the report (or their written designee)
• the attorneys for people involved in the crash
• a party to a lawsuit who sends a copy of the first page of the clerk-stamped complaint naming all parties
• certain government agencies and news organizations, as the statute allows

Bring a photo ID if you go in person. If a lawyer is helping you, the lawyer can request the report for you.

When you get your report, check names, insurance information, vehicle details, the location, the diagram and the officer’s narrative. Mistakes happen, and an error about who was where can cause trouble with an insurance claim. Ask the agency that wrote the report how to request a correction or add a supplemental statement, and do it early. Our general guide to Kentucky accident reports explains how corrections work.

The report is important evidence, but it isn’t the final word on fault. Officers usually arrive after the crash and may not talk to every witness. Insurance adjusters and courts look at all the evidence, including photos, video, witness statements and vehicle damage.