TxDOT continues to support agencies in their adoption of the CRASH application. CRASH went live in production on October 4, 2011, with four agencies: Travis County Sheriff’s Office, Copperas Cove PD, Cedar Park PD and La Vernia PD. Within a month later, on November 4, 2011, our flagship agency San Antonio PD began utilizing CRASH after an extensive three-month training to more than 2,000 officers. Additional agencies are being added to CRASH as they complete the prerequisites and qualification requirements.
TxDOT offers two free applications for electronic submission:
- CRASH – developed for investigators to provide crash data via the secure public internet and includes over 800+ business rules and edits.
- Submission Services – developed for agencies with an existing application and requires a web services client and adherence to the 800+ business rules and edits.
The steps/process for using CRASH is as follows:
- Complete CRASH Training Checklist.
- Schedule Configure and CRASH training.
a. Configure training is 2 hours and is held as the first class prior to CRASH training,
b. CRASH training is 4 hours and TCOLE certified. (A certified TCOLE instructor must be present for the CRASH training in order for any officer attending to receive TCOLE Credit)
The steps/process for using Submission Services is as follows:
- Attend a kick-off meeting between TxDOT, agency and agency’s RMS vendor, which lasts 1 hour. The Submission Services Implementation Plan is reviewed.
- Sign the Implementation Plan.
- Begin testing with TxDOTs support.
- Review of testing results and if agency, TxDOT, vendor agree the agency is ready to move to production, the agency will begin submitting records electronically.
