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Old 07-08-2013, 02:48 PM
 
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I know when I lived in NJ you could take a license plate number, go to the DMV, and argue to get them retested for certain reasons. Does such a thing exist in California?
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Old 07-08-2013, 02:52 PM
 
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I hope not.
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Old 07-08-2013, 02:56 PM
 
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I had never heard of this, but when I googled it the first thing that came up was a form to do this in California: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/brochures...cts/ffdl10.htm
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Old 07-08-2013, 02:57 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Here's the form for California: http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/forms/ds/ds699.pdf

And for the people who can't imagine why you'd need to report someone, sometimes you have to report your own relative when they're clearly a danger to themselves or others but won't give up driving on their own. Hopefully not the situation the OP is dealing with, but it happens sometimes.
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Old 07-08-2013, 08:08 PM
 
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Here's the form for California: http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/forms/ds/ds699.pdf

And for the people who can't imagine why you'd need to report someone, sometimes you have to report your own relative when they're clearly a danger to themselves or others but won't give up driving on their own. Hopefully not the situation the OP is dealing with, but it happens sometimes.
Yea, I guess so, I was thinking more of someone sees somebody do something, get the tag number, then fill out a form, so people could start doing this out of spite for another person, sort of like how a few child protected services are called in revenge against someone.
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Old 07-09-2013, 01:00 PM
 
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Yea, I guess so, I was thinking more of someone sees somebody do something, get the tag number, then fill out a form, so people could start doing this out of spite for another person, sort of like how a few child protected services are called in revenge against someone.
Seems democratic enough to me. Obviously a single or even a few reports from disgruntled drivers would not be enough to warrant DMV resources to have the driver tracked down and re-evaluated. However multiple reports over a significant span of time should certainly be enough to trigger an investigation of an allegedly horrid driver. I like the idea.
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Old 07-09-2013, 02:45 PM
 
Location: Apple Valley Calif
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I know when I lived in NJ you could take a license plate number, go to the DMV, and argue to get them retested for certain reasons. Does such a thing exist in California?
And just where do you think Road Rage was invented? California..! If you don't like the way someone drives,
SHOOT THEM! Save lots of time and aggravation..
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Old 07-09-2013, 02:48 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Yeah. What's your license number? I want to demand that you be retested. See how you like it. Be careful what you wish for.
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Old 07-09-2013, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Vermont
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I wouldn't be surprised if there is a way to do it, but it seems pretty indirect for a random occurrence you see on the road. For one thing, the DMV doesn't know from the license plate who the driver was. For another,if you see something dangerous happen on the road the time you want a response is right now.

Under these circumstances, if I see someone doing something really bad on the road I would call the local or state police, give them the tag number, description of the car, and what you saw. I don't know if they would do anything, but it's worth a shot.
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Old 07-10-2013, 09:36 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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We have turned into a society of "Me" and with the invention of the cell phone camera thinks that "we" need to be the world police.
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