Personal Injury Mileage Log: Free Printable Template

After an accident, the drives add up fast: the doctor, physical therapy two or three times a week, imaging, the pharmacy, the lawyer's office. Those miles can be part of a personal injury claim, but only if someone wrote them down. Most firms hand clients a mileage form at the start of the case, and most of those forms never come back.

This free mileage log is built to be easy to keep in the car and quick to fill in.

Download the Personal Injury Mileage Log (PDF)

What to Write Down for Each Trip

Each line on the log is one drive. For every trip, write:

• Date. The day you drove, not the day you remembered it.
• Where you went. The provider's name, or the address if it was not a provider.
• Reason. A medical appointment, therapy or PT, the pharmacy, your attorney's office, or something else.
• Round trip. Check it if you drove there and back, which is almost every time.
• Miles. If you are not sure, leave it blank. The distance can be worked out later from where you went.

Which Trips to Track

Write down every drive you made because of the injury. That usually means doctor and specialist visits, physical therapy and chiropractic care, imaging and testing, urgent care, the pharmacy, and meetings at your lawyer's office.

Which of these are part of your claim depends on your case and your state, so track all of them and let your attorney decide what to use. A trip you wrote down can always be left out later. A trip you forgot is gone.

Tips for Keeping It

Keep it in the car. A log in a drawer at home gets filled in from memory weeks later, if at all. A log in the glovebox gets filled in in the parking lot.

Write it the same day. Dates and places blur quickly once you are going to several appointments a week.

Keep parking receipts. Parking and tolls are separate from mileage, but they come from the same trips. Take a photo of each receipt.

Send it before it is full. Your law firm would rather have ten trips now than forty at the end of the case.

An Easier Way to Keep a Mileage Log

If your law firm uses Quilia, you do not have to keep the log on paper at all. In the Quilia app, you pick where you went and the miles fill in on their own. Your past appointments show up ready to log in one tap, and you can just text Quilia "drove to PT this morning."

If you would rather keep the paper log, that works too. When the page is full, take a photo of it in the app, and each line becomes a trip for your law firm. The client guide walks through both.

For law firms, every trip lands on the case with the total miles, ready to download as a PDF or CSV when it is time to build the demand. See how mileage tracking works.