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Use DA Form 3946 when you need to military police traffic accident report. Full title: MILITARY POLICE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT REPORT. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 12/01/1998, status ACTIVE, 5 page(s), roughly 200 fields.
PMG is the proponent, AR 190-45 the prescribing authority. Read the directive only if something about your situation departs from the standard case. Otherwise the form is filled by the individual it describes, or by the records clerk keeping the file, and reviewed through the printed signature blocks.
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What the form asks for
- ACCDATE
- ACCTIME
- ACROSS
- ADDOWN
- ADDOWN_B
- AGAINST
- AGE_A
- AGE_B
- ALONG
- APPREHEN
- APPREHEN_1
- APPROVED
- BAC
- BAC_A
- BEHIND
- BELT_A
- BELT_B
- BODTYPE
- BODY_B
- BUSINESS
- CAT
- CAT_A
- CAT_B
- CHAR
The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.
Move between fields with tab; the build-time order follows the page and misses nothing. Click check boxes and option buttons, and expect an exclusive group to release the old choice when you set a new one. The trap is field width. Single-line fields do not wrap, so an overlong entry displays complete on screen and prints cut at the margin — put it in remarks or on a continuation instead. Mark inapplicable fields rather than leaving them blank, since an empty box carries no information about whether the question was read.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
Read the Privacy Act statement at the point it appears. Authority, purpose, routine uses, mandatory or voluntary — four facts, and they govern what you are about to enter. A completed copy holds personal data and takes the handling rules that attach to it.
The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.
Related forms are found by series and number. DA series documents under the same proponent or the same prescribing directive are commonly required as a set, and any form named on the face of this one goes forward with it. Assemble continuations, covers and transmittals before submitting, not after the query comes back.
Edition date is the version number, printed on the page. Hold a locally saved copy against the current edition before reuse, since nothing on your machine signals a revision. Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.
These are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents, offered for download. The site is independent, connected to nothing official, and issues no forms of its own. Nothing here is legal advice and no statement is made about acceptance by any office. Questions about an entry, a requirement or eligibility go to PMG or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3946?
- MILITARY POLICE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT REPORT
- Which edition is current?
- 12/01/1998
- Who is responsible for this form?
- PMG
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF
Publisher notes
- 14-REQUIRES PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT (AR 340-21)
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA