How to Trace a Car's Owner by the Tag Number
Sometimes situations require you to track someone down by their license tag number. Circumstances such as a car accident, where one of the parties involved fled the scene and needed to be found for legal and insurance reasons. Alternately tracking down a long lost family member may depend on the tag number that they last had. Whatever the reason, tracking down the owner of the tags can be done in various ways. Although some tags are not open to the public, the information can be obtained by police assistance.
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Go to your local Department of Motor Vehicles with the tag number. If you were in an accident with the car owner then the DMV can locate the owner. They cannot disclose the owners contact information, but they can provide you with a name. It is possible for DMV contact the owner for you for insurance claim purposes.
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Hire a private investigator. Investigators have tools and connections to locate people. They have ways to locate people that every day people may not have access too. Since their job is to search for people, they can find the information needed from the owner's tags.
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Use online fee-based services such as Best People Search and Abika which are two websites that provide this kind of service (see References). They specialize in finding people using their tag number.
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