A plain-English guide to the California Highway Patrol codes and dispatch-log abbreviations used across this site. Community-compiled and unofficial — meanings are approximate.
Incident codes
- 1013
- Road / weather conditions
- 1124
- Abandoned vehicle
- 1125
- Traffic hazard
- 1125A
- Animal hazard
- 1144
- Fatality
- 1166
- Defective traffic signals
- 1179
- Traffic collision — ambulance en route
- 1180
- Traffic collision — major injuries
- 1181
- Traffic collision — minor injuries
- 1182
- Traffic collision — no injuries
- 1183
- Traffic collision — unknown injuries
- 1184
- Provide traffic control
- 20001
- Hit and run — injury (CVC 20001)
- 20002
- Hit and run — no injury (CVC 20002)
- 23114
- Object flying/falling from vehicle (CVC 23114)
Radio / status codes
- 11-79
- Collision — ambulance dispatched
- 11-80
- Collision — major injury
- 11-81
- Collision — minor injury
- 11-82
- Collision — no injury
- 11-83
- Collision — no detail
- 11-84
- Direct traffic
- 11-85
- Tow truck requested
- 1141
- Ambulance / medical aid
- 1185
- Tow truck requested
- 1039
- Tow company notified (rotation tow)
Vehicle & color abbreviations
- SD
- Sedan
- PK
- Pickup
- SU
- SUV
- VN
- Van
- MC
- Motorcycle
- BI
- Bicycle
- PED
- Pedestrian
- TT
- Tractor-trailer / big rig
- WHI
- White
- BLK
- Black
- GRY
- Gray
- RED
- Red
- BLU
- Blue
- GRN
- Green
- SIL
- Silver
Location & direction
- NB
- Northbound
- SB
- Southbound
- EB
- Eastbound
- WB
- Westbound
- I
- Interstate
- SR
- State Route
- US
- US Highway
- JNO
- Just north of
- JSO
- Just south of
- JEO
- Just east of
- JWO
- Just west of
- OFR
- Offramp
- ONR
- Onramp
- CD
- Center Divide
- O/S
- On scene
- ENRT
- En route
- ETA
- Estimated Time of Arrival
- RP
- Reporting party
- TC
- Traffic collision
- FSP
- Freeway Service Patrol
- CT
- Caltrans