North Carolina Crash Report Instruction Manual - NHTSA

_____________________________________________________________________________________________Pulling the cream colored insert cover sheet out of the pad of DMV-349 reports reveals, onthe back side, "roadway" and "location" descriptive information for officer reference incompleting the report, using terminology that is consistent with other users of the crashreporting system.FILLING OUTBottom Inside Faceof theCrash Report PadBackside of theCrash Report PadBackside ofthe InsertCover SheetThe bottom inside face of the cream colored crash report pad itself is revealed by lifting theactual DMV-349 reports away from the pad. This section of the pad contains importantinformation concerning “sequence of events” in the crash, “most harmful” events, descriptions ofvarious “fixed object” types, characteristics of motor vehicle traffic crashes, and a few examplesof exclusions from motor vehicle traffic crashes.The back side of the crash report pad contains valuable information concerning where totelephone or write with questions concerning filling out the DMV-349, a reference for crashesinvolving commercial motor vehicles (CMV), completing supplemental reports, other importantdefinitions, and a short summary of “why officers submit crash report forms.”_____________________________________________________________________________________________North Carolina DMV-349 Crash Report Instruction Manual Page 5