The statute or the agency first
Every rule on this site comes from the body that writes it or runs it. Rider equipment, lane use and lane filtering come from Title 28 of the Arizona Revised Statutes. Time limits, the public-entity notice of claim and the fault rule come from Title 12. Report steps come from the Phoenix Police Department, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The trauma centers come from the Arizona Department of Health Services list. Court details come from the Superior Court in Maricopa County and its Clerk.
We cite the statute or link the agency page in the paragraph that relies on it. News reports and law firm blogs sometimes tip us off to a topic. Nothing from them is published until the statute or the agency confirms it.
The right office for the right road
In Phoenix, the road decides who writes the report: city officers for city streets, state troopers for the interstates and state highways, and the sheriff for county roads outside city limits. We take care to give each step for the right office. When two official pages disagree, as they sometimes do about an address or a fee, we leave the detail out until we can confirm it.
Written for one job at a time
Each section helps with one task, such as getting a report, writing down a deadline or checking a lawyer. We use short sentences and write out the numbers that matter. When we use an example to show how a rule works, we label it as an example. We do not publish verdicts, settlement amounts, crash counts we cannot source, or ratings of lawyers.
When things change
When a statute, a fee or an office process changes, we update the section and the page date. If a change alters what a reader should do, we add a short dated note.
Problems go to the corrections page. Riders who want a callback about their own crash can open the free case review.