Captain Jason Berry
Government and Media Relations
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*** For Immediate Release***
Date:
June 24, 2011
Contact:
Dan Coon
Phone:
(360) 596-4012
E-mail:
dan.coon@wsp.wa.gov
WSP Offers New Online Tool for Collision Records
Washington Requests for Electronic Collision Reports or “WRECR”
(Olympia) - Were you recently in a collision and now need a copy of your police traffic collision report for your insurance company? Instead of the four weeks it previously took when mailing in the request, now a few simple clicks of the mouse you can request a copy of your report and receive it in one to five days.
“This new Web site will provide the citizens with an important service that’s faster and easier to use,” said Washington State Patrol Chief John R. Batiste. “From the officer filing the collision report via their laptops in their patrol car to seeing it on the Web site, we could not have completed this program without the support and partnerships of other state agencies.”
The Washington State Patrol (WSP) Collision Records Section partnered with the Department of Revenue, Department of Licensing, Washington State Department of Transportation, Office of the State Treasurer, and Office of Financial Management and received grant funding from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission to build the Washington Requests for Electronic Collision Reports or “WRECR” application.
The goal of the project was to give the public the ability to go online, enter their identifying information, find their collision report, pay the $9.50 fee, and receive their collision report via e-mail, fax, or by mail in one to five days.
“There are still some requirements our collision records technicians need to accomplish to process the online request before it can be sent out,” said Jim Anderson, Collision Records Division Administrator. “Even with these requirements, the online records requests make receiving the collision report weeks faster than the old method.”
The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 46.52.030 requires all law enforcement agencies to submit their collision reports to the WSP Collision Records repository in a timely manner. Prior to this Web site, an individual looking for a copy of a collision report would have to mail in the request and a $9.50 fee, even if the WSP Collision Records Section had not yet received the collision report.
“This new application allows the individual to find their report online first and then pay the fee for the report,” said Anderson. “If at first you do not find your report, please check back. There is no cost until you actually find your report.”
The WRECR application can be found on the State Patrol’s Web site at www.wsp.wa.gov/publications/collision.htm.
The WRECR Web site has training and other helpful information available to assist requestors with the process. If people still have questions about how to obtain their collision records they are always welcome to contact WSP’s Collision Records Section at (360) 570-2355.
For more information about the WRECR program and how to use it, check out our Good to Know – Collision Reports video.
WRECR Fact Sheet
Partner agencies and the roles they played in the creation of the WRECR program.
- Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
- Provides the collision record data needed on a daily basis. Assisted in the database setup for the WSP server and provided funding originally allotted by Traffic Safety Commission after WSP solved the retention requirements for the WRECR program.
- Washington State Department of Revenue (DOR)
- Provide WSP a copy of their Automatic Clearing House (ACH) solution allowing WSP to process electronic checks.
- Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC)
- Provide the grant funding WRECR program.
- Office of the State Treasure (OST)
- Partnered with us in the ACH / electronic check and credit card processing set up and testing.
- OST helped WSP with requirements needed for the ACH and credit card process in the beginning of the project.
- Assisted in testing the processes once in the testing phase.
- OST also closely monitored the first production of ACH payments – as this was a new process for WSP.
- Office of Financial Management (OFM)
- OFM helped WSP with requirements needed for our Accounts Receivable.
- Assisted in testing the processes during the testing phase.