Look up a New Hampshire plate
See whether other drivers have filed reports against a plate.
A plate with no reports comes back clean — that is the common result, and it is not an error.
Avoidance & safety rules
- Do not follow or pursue the vehicle, under any circumstances.
- Do not try to read or photograph the plate if doing so means getting closer or driving unsafely.
- Do not engage. No gestures, no eye contact, no reply to an aggressive driver.
- Keep your distance and let them pass. Pull over somewhere public before you make a call, or have a passenger call.
- Note details only if it is safe: make, model and colour, full or partial plate, direction of travel, and the exact location or mile marker.
Does a Jerk Alert report reach the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles? No — Jerk Alert filings are community records between drivers. They never reach the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles, any other government body, or law enforcement, and they do not replace the calls in sections 1 and 2. If you are in danger, call 911. The Terms prohibit following, approaching, or identifying another driver on any Jerk Alert platform.
New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire-specific line is listed here. We publish a patrol code only when a state police or DOT page carries it.
2. Reporting to New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire
- The non-emergency line of the New Hampshire town or city 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
Public reporting accessNo — only family, police or health care providers can report a driver
The route exists, but only for people connected to the driver.
Who can file: A law enforcement officer; a health care provider (which Saf-C 1009.02(b) says includes a school nurse, a nursing home administrator or a hospital administrator); or a family member. An unrelated witness, a neighbour or a member of the general public cannot file one.
Note what the required contents mean in practice: the letter must state your relationship to the driver and give the driver's date of birth. Both are things a witness who has only seen a car cannot supply.
Administrative fitness process
The details, for the people New Hampshire allows to file.
- Agency
- New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles
- Unit
- Office of the Director
- Form
- Written request for re-examination (no published form — a letter)
- Where to send
- Office of the Director, Division of Motor Vehicles, 23 Hazen Drive, Concord NH 03305
What information do I need to report a driver?
- There is no form. Subsection (a) requires a written request, sent to the Office of the Director at the address below.
- Subsection (c) requires the request to give: your name; your address; your relationship to the person you say needs re-examination; that person's name, address and date of birth; and the reasons for the request, with any supporting documentation.
- The rule is about "high risk drivers" — Saf-C 1009.01 defines one as a driver who, because of an apparent physical or psychological impairment or condition, needs a re-examination to determine their fitness to drive safely so as not to endanger the public.
Will the driver find out who reported them?
Not anonymous, and no promise of confidentiality. Saf-C 1009.02(c) requires your name, address and relationship to the driver, so a request cannot be anonymous. The Driver Privacy Act, RSA 260:14, makes the DMV's records confidential from the public — another person cannot obtain them — but § VII gives the driver access to the motor vehicle records relating to them on proof of identity, and a suspension under RSA 263:56 follows a hearing at which the evidence is examined. Neither the Act nor Saf-C 1009 says whether a re-examination request is withheld from the driver, so assume the driver may learn who asked.
What can the New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles do after a report?
- Under subsection (d) the Director reviews what you sent and determines either that a re-examination is not warranted; or that the person is a high risk driver and a re-examination is ordered, to be conducted by a licensing examiner; or that the person's licence is immediately suspended under RSA 263:59.
- A re-examination consists of three parts: the visual acuity examination (Saf-C 1004.01), the knowledge examination (Saf-C 1005.01) and the road skills examination (Saf-C 1006.01).
- The driver is notified and given two opportunities to pass each required examination. Failing after two attempts, or not appearing for a scheduled examination, results in immediate suspension under RSA 263:59.
- A driver who passes keeps a valid licence until its expiry date — but the Director may still order further re-examinations at scheduled intervals, or as deemed appropriate, to monitor continued fitness to drive safely.
- Any hearing under the rule is conducted in accordance with Saf-C 200.
- Behind the rule sits RSA 263:56: after a hearing, the Director may suspend or revoke a licence on a showing by the Division's records or other sufficient evidence that the driver is habitually reckless or negligent (I(c)) or incompetent to drive by reason of physical or mental impairment (I(d)). An impairment suspension may be indefinite, and the driver may request a hearing once a year to review the order (III(b)).
Statutory authority: N.H. Admin. R. Saf-C 1009.02 (request for a re-examination); RSA 263:56 (suspension or revocation after hearing; I(c) habitually reckless or negligent, I(d) physical or mental impairment; III(b) indefinite suspension with annual review); RSA 263:59 (suspension); RSA 260:14 (Driver Privacy Act — confidentiality of DMV records, § VII the driver's own access).
New Hampshire is one of 18 of 51 US jurisdictions where a witness unrelated to the driver has no confirmed way to report them to the licensing agency (the 51-location study). That gap is one reason Jerk Alert exists.
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