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mike268 t1_j9vaxmk wrote

NJ Police Officer here, you are not getting the full story from the driver. The only time a ticket is issued against the registered owner is if there is no driver at the time of the ticket (hit an run type) or someone impersonated you.

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op00to t1_j9vgbw0 wrote

You don't have to be trained as a police officer to see what happened! Oh boy.

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encouragingSN t1_j9x4osf wrote

Isn't it possible the police officer simply made a mistake when writing the ticket?

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Maximum-Excitement58 t1_j9y991u wrote

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

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mike268 t1_j9ygeys wrote

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

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beeeps-n-booops t1_j9z6qeq wrote

> 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...

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op00to t1_j9yb8uj wrote

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.

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mike268 t1_j9ygkor wrote

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

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op00to t1_j9z1ii1 wrote

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

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beeeps-n-booops t1_j9z70q4 wrote

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?

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Hefty-Couple-6497 t1_j9x7zqb wrote

NJ civilian here, you are correct, there’s 3 sides to every story mine, his/her (them/they?) and the truth

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Impressive-Box7983 t1_j9y6wan wrote

I actually got a seatbelt ticket with some random person from New York listed. It was on GSP near Red Bank. The department does make mistakes

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