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FWIW,,,As a retired police officer, most accident reports are public records. The responding officer took you name and address from you drivers license and listed it in the report since you were a passenger in the vehicle. The use of the drivers license is just an easier way to fill out the report. This actually protects you in the long run. If you weren’t listed on the report as a passenger and developed medical problems later in the day or week, the insurance company wouldn’t be liable to pay your medical expenses. Further since you were also a “witness” to the accident and it appears it was a hit and run, you’d have little credibility in a criminal or civil case against the other driver since there would be no record of your having been at the scene.

Lastly, if it is any consolation to you, my 18 year old daughter was killed in an auto accident and I received a mailing from an attorney within 3 days of her death. To add insult to injury the firm sent another letter a week letter with a news clipping from a local paper describing my daughter’s accident with the notation “in case you didn’t see this” I called the attorney and told him in no uncertain terms that if I received another letter from their firm, I’d file charges with the state bar association and call a local investigative reporter (Detroit media) and hold a press conference outside their office.

Lawyers are for the most part decent people but there are some real scumbags out there that give the profession a bad name.