Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
I’m sorry to hear about your accident.
Often in a car accident, a police report has to be filed and they would have collected both party’s information. You can ask for a copy because you would also need this for your insurance company. Once received, you can check the police report to find out.
You can ask by providing the following information to the officer:
The license plate number
Incident report number
You can also ask the DMV, but you will have to provide the police report. Due to privacy laws, if they think you are falsifying information, they won’t release any information about the other driver.
If the other driver was not covered, you might want to check and see if you have
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