How to get your Lee's Summit accident report

Your report belongs to whichever agency investigated the crash, not to a single “Lee’s Summit” record system. Sort out who responded first, and the rest of this gets simple.

City streets: Lee’s Summit PD

A crash on an ordinary city street inside Lee’s Summit is Lee’s Summit Police Department’s report. Requests route through the Records Unit at 10 NE Tudor Rd; weekday counter hours run 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The unit can’t confirm a report’s status by phone, so a visit or the online option is the way to actually check. Requests can take 7 to 10 business days to process once they’re submitted, so build that into your timeline rather than expecting same-day results.

The department also offers reports online through buycrash.com, which advertises around-the-clock access to completed reports; that portal adds its own service fee on top of whatever the city charges directly.

Highway crashes: MSHP Troop A

A crash on a major highway, including stretches of US-50 or I-470 through the metro, is often investigated by the Missouri State Highway Patrol rather than the city. Requests go through the Patrol’s own records process, a $6 fee statewide, with a 10-day wait built in from the investigation date before a copy is ready to request.

Here’s the part most report guides for this area miss entirely: Troop A’s own headquarters sits inside Lee’s Summit, at 1900 NE Independence Avenue near the I-470/Colbern Road interchange. The troop covers highway crashes across the whole Kansas City region, including both counties Lee’s Summit touches, so a highway-crash report for this metro routes back through a building inside this city’s own limits.

Just south, in Greenwood or Cass County

A crash that happened just south of the city, in Greenwood or the unincorporated Cass County side of the area, doesn’t route through Lee’s Summit PD at all. The Greenwood accident report page rounds out that agency’s own process, since it isn’t the same office and isn’t the same request form.

Aggregator sites, and the fee they get wrong

A search for “Lee’s Summit accident report” turns up third-party sites quoting a flat fee for a copy. Aggregator sites quote ten dollars for a Lee’s Summit report; the fee schedule the city itself publishes, updated for July 2026, says six. That’s the Initial Report Copy line on the city’s own police fee schedule, the general charge that covers a crash report copy from the Records Unit. Six dollars and the right counter beat ten and the wrong one.

Once you have a copy

Read past the fault conclusion. Compare the vehicle descriptions, the road and weather conditions listed, and whether the officer’s diagram matches your own memory of the intersection. A report written from a few minutes at the scene can get a detail wrong, and it’s worth catching early rather than after an insurer has already leaned on it.