Maximum-Excitement58 t1_j9y991u wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:10 PM

Reply to comment by encouragingSN in Speeding Ticket on Turnpike issued to car owner. What can be done about it? by Jerseysure35

How did he get the owner’s driver’s license info?

mike268 t1_j9ygeys wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:16 PM

It is right on your physical registration as well as when you look up the license plate in the computer database

beeeps-n-booops t1_j9z6qeq wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:23 PM

> It is right on your physical registration

I was about to jump in and say "your license plate number is there, but not your drivers license number"... and then I took a look.

Well, I'll be... it sure is. Never noticed that.

But now I'm questioning why... can you not register a vehicle if you don't have a license? Perhaps I own the car, but bought it so my SO / kid / other can drive?

Just seems weird to me to put the DL# on there. Registering a car and driving (in general) are two different things...

op00to t1_j9yb8uj wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:30 PM

Maybe /u/mike268 can pop in, but I can imagine that when the officer goes into the computer to write the ticket, if the driver doesn't have a drivers license to scan/enter, you can probably automatically fill the ticket with the registered owner's information. Save the officer some time and risk of entering wrong information.

mike268 t1_j9ygkor wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:17 PM

The automatic ticket machines populate when you scan the code from the driver’s license.

op00to t1_j9z1ii1 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:49 PM

Oh, thank you! How much enjoyment do you get out of seeing peoples wild theories about what the little computer can do? :)

beeeps-n-booops t1_j9z70q4 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:25 PM

If OP wasn't in the car to hand over their license, how might their license# have gotten on the ticket? Even though it's on the registration, sounds like the officer would've had to have manually changed it from what was scanned, no?