If You’re Involved in An Accident, Look for Cameras

Look for Cameras: Video cameras are everywhere! Take a look around as you are at the scene and make not of each and every camera that you suspect may have recorded the scene. Traffic cameras are overwritten every 3 days so you have to order them immediately. You can use the following info to do so:

Requests for traffic signal camera files or signal timing audits can be sent in writing to:

Traffic Department Signals
4700 Elmore Road
Anchorage, AK

or

Email: trafficsignalsrequest@anchorageak.gov

The request should include the following:

• Date

• Time

• Location of the incident

• Anchorage Police Department: Yes/No

• Anchorage Police Department Case Number

• Description

  • Include vehicles involved

  • Direction of travel

  • What lane vehicles were in

  • Type of accident

  • If not at the intersection provide distance or landmarks where the accident occurred

This information is crucial in the process of acquiring any files that may exist of the incident.

Please note that the cameras only hold approximately 3 days of video. After that the file are overwritten and lost.

Note if the other vehicle has a dashcam. Note all traffic or business/private cameras that may have captured the scene. Ring doorbells are common now, as are business cameras. Make a list and systematically notify each possible camera you can use.