Look up a North Dakota 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 North Dakota Department of Transportation? No — Jerk Alert filings are community records between drivers. They never reach the North Dakota Department of Transportation, 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.
North Dakota 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 North Dakota-specific line is listed here. We publish a patrol code only when a state police or DOT page carries it.
2. Reporting to North Dakota 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 North Dakota
- The non-emergency line of the North Dakota 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 accessYes — citizens can report dangerous drivers
By letter — North Dakota publishes no citizen form. You write to the unit below.
Who can file: A concerned family member, friend or citizen may submit a written statement — NDDOT's words. First-hand accounts only; no third-party or anonymous information.
Administrative fitness process
- Agency
- North Dakota Department of Transportation
- Unit
- Drivers License Division — Medical Unit
- Where to send
- Drivers License Division, Attention: Medical Program Coordinator, NDDOT, 608 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck ND 58505-0750
- Contact
- dl@nd.gov · fax 701-328-0308
What information do I need to report a driver?
- NDDOT frames this as Option 2. Option 1 is to talk to the driver's treating physician; where you are unable to discuss the situation with them, you may submit a written statement instead.
- The statement must be signed and dated by the reporting party.
- It should give specific details pertaining to the medical, physical or mental status of the individual. Age is not a sufficient reason.
- You may submit it by email, fax or mail.
- Form SFN 13671 Request for Re-Examination is for law enforcement officers and certified driver examiners, who certify they personally interacted with the individual. Health care providers use the Medical Examination Report SFN 4569; vision specialists use SFN 2342.
What can the North Dakota Department of Transportation do after a report?
- Reports are carefully screened by the Medical Program Coordinator.
- As a result the driver may be asked to submit a medical report from their physician or a vision report from an eye specialist, or may be required to report to a driver licence office for retesting.
- If the Medical Program Coordinator does not find any substance or validity to the complaint, no further action is taken.
- A driver who fails to meet the medical criteria, or who fails to file the requested reports or complete the required tests, may have their driving privileges suspended.
- Under NDAC 37-03-03-02, where the director has good cause to believe a licensee is physically or mentally incompetent to safely operate a motor vehicle, or otherwise not qualified to be licensed, the director may on written notice of at least five days require physical, mental or driver's examinations — including examinations by licensed medical doctors or psychiatrists, with a report submitted to the director. Expenses of those examinations are borne by the licensee.
- If the director determines from the results that the licensee is unfit to safely operate a motor vehicle, the director may suspend or revoke their driving privileges, or issue a licence subject to the restrictions authorised by NDCC § 39-06-17.
- Refusal or neglect to submit to examination is itself grounds for suspension or revocation.
- A judge with reasonable grounds to believe a licence holder is not competent may declare them disqualified; privileges are suspended until a new court order says otherwise.
Statutory authority: NDAC 37-03-03-02 (examination of licensee — grounds; revocation, suspension or restriction of driving privileges; general authority NDCC 28-32-02, law implemented NDCC 39-06-32); NDCC § 39-06-17 (restrictions); NDAC 37-03-03-01 (suspension on incompetence).
What this route can and cannot do
A fitness-to-drive referral, not a bad-driving complaint: it is built around a medical, cognitive or physical condition and asks for the driver’s name and date of birth, which a plate number does not give you.
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