Reporting a bad driver in Nebraska

Nebraska bad driver reporting & safety guide

1. If it is happening now immediate danger

Emergency hotlines

• 911 — for a driver who is an active danger to other people right now. That is a police matter, and no app is a substitute for the call.
• No Nebraska-specific line is listed here. We publish a patrol code only when a state police or DOT page carries it.

2. Reporting to Nebraska law enforcement after the fact

Neither the hotlines above nor anything in this section is the licence-review route in section 3, and nothing filed on Jerk Alert reaches any of them.

Who takes the report in Nebraska

• The non-emergency line of the Nebraska municipal police department or county sheriff’s office with jurisdiction where it happened takes reports of dangerous driving that has already happened.
• Bring: the plate (full or partial) and state, the vehicle’s make, model and colour, the location, the date and time, the direction of travel, and what you saw.
• Expect a record rather than a ticket. An officer who did not witness the driving usually cannot cite for it, and what each agency acts on varies.

3. State DMV & licensing agency review

Administrative fitness process

Agency

Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles

Unit

Driver Licensing Division

Form

Citizen Reexamination Report

Where to send

Director, Department of Motor Vehicles, Driver Licensing Division, PO Box 94726, Lincoln NE 68509-4726 — the address printed on the form itself

Contact

dmv.exam-medcert@nebraska.gov · fax (402) 471-4020

What information do I need to report a driver?

• Complete the Citizen Reexamination Report. It is a letter to the Director of the DMV asking that a named driver be recalled for examination because, in your opinion, they are not capable of operating a motor vehicle safely.
• Give the driver's name, address and date of birth, and a detailed explanation of the reasons. The form asks for “Examples of poor driving behavior that you have personally witnessed or that have been reported to you by a reliable source, and/or known medical conditions that could affect safe driving” — so poor driving on its own is a stated ground, and Nebraska is unusual in accepting what a reliable source reported to you as well as what you saw yourself.
• A copy of your own driver's licence must be enclosed with the report — the form states this, in bold, as a requirement rather than an option.
• The form asks you to tick Yes or No to “I authorize the release of all information related to the citizen reexamination report”. Read the next section before you answer it.
• Mail it to the Director at the Driver Licensing Division address printed on the form. The form gives no email address and no fax number; two secondary guides say email requests are not accepted.

Will the driver find out who reported them?

Not anonymous, and do not assume the driver cannot learn who filed. The form requires your signature, printed name, relationship to the driver, address and daytime phone number, all of which must be completed for the report to be accepted, plus a copy of your own licence — and it asks whether you authorise the release of all information related to the report. Read Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-4,118.03 before you rely on that tick-box: reports received by the director to help decide whether a person is qualified to be licensed are for the confidential use of the director and their designees, and may not be divulged to any person — or used in evidence in any legal proceeding — “other than the applicant or licensee”, with a report admissible in an appeal of an order based on it. So the statute keeps your report from the public and out of court, and expressly carves out the driver. Nothing Nebraska publishes promises that the DMV will withhold your identity from the person you reported.

What can the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles do after a report?

• The DMV reviews the report and the driver's record, and may contact you for more information.
• If it comes to the Director's attention that someone may not be capable of operating a motor vehicle safely, the DMV can require that driver to appear before Driver Licensing staff at a specified date and time for reexamination.
• The driver may be required to furnish a statement from a licensed physician about their medical history and present condition as it relates to driving ability, and a vision statement from an optometrist or ophthalmologist.
• Recall applicants may be asked to take and pass the written test, and a drive test must be completed successfully.
• Failure to report for the examination, to submit the required medical or vision statement, or to pass the required written and drive tests results in the licence being CANCELLED — and a refusal to appear after notice causes immediate cancellation under § 60-4,118(4)(b). A cancelled licence is null and void: proof of identification and all three tests are needed to get a valid one again.
• A person aggrieved by the Director's decision may appeal it as provided in § 60-4,105.

Statutory authority: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-4,118(4) (the director's notice-and-examination power, including on a law enforcement officer's request with supervisor-approved written justification, and immediate cancellation for refusing to appear); § 60-4,118.03 (confidential use of reports, the carve-out for the applicant or licensee, and appeal under § 60-4,105) — its immunity runs to any person EXAMINING an applicant or licensee, which is the examiner, not the person who reported the driver.

What this route can and cannot do

Nebraska is one of the few states whose process covers observed driving behaviour and not only medical impairment — but it is still a fitness-to-drive referral: it asks for the driver’s name and date of birth, which a plate number does not give you, and its remedy is a competence re-test that a capable but aggressive driver passes.