Method and system of aggregating vehicle data to support vehicle investigations

A computing system implemented method of aggregating vehicle data to support law enforcement investigations, the method comprising:

• providing a hit and run vehicle search software system;
• providing one or more parties associated with one or more vehicle repair facilities access to the hit and run vehicle search software system;
• receiving, from the one or more parties associated with the one or more vehicle repair facilities, through the hit and run vehicle search software system, vehicle data associated with one or more vehicles brought to the vehicle repair facilities for repair, wherein at least a portion of the vehicle data includes facility location data indicating the location of the vehicle repair facilities;
• correlating the vehicle data for each vehicle brought to the vehicle repair facilities with the respective vehicle and the facility location data and storing the correlated vehicle data in one or more sections of memory that are allocated for use by the vehicle search software system;
• providing one or more parties associated with one or more law enforcement agencies access to the hit and run vehicle search software system;
• receiving, from one or more parties associated with the one or more law enforcement agencies, through the hit and run vehicle search software system, hit and run search data associated with a target vehicle suspected of being involved in a hit and run incident, wherein at least a portion of the hit and run search data associated with the target vehicle includes the location of the hit and run incident;
• defining a relevant distance from the location of the hit and run incident and generating relevant radius data representing the relevant distance from the location of the hit and run incident;
• processing, using a search module of the hit and run vehicle search software system, the facility location data of each of the vehicle repair facilities and the relevant radius data to identify a relevant subset of vehicle repair facilities that are within the relevant distance from the location of the hit and run incident;
• processing, using a search module of the hit and run vehicle search software system, the correlated vehicle data for each facility in the relevant subset of vehicle repair facilities, and the hit and run search data associated with a target vehicle to match at least a portion of the correlated vehicle data to the hit and run search data associated with the target vehicle;
• if a match is found between at least a portion of the correlated vehicle data and the hit and run search data associated with a target vehicle, identifying the vehicle associated with the matched portion of the correlated vehicle data;
• generating alert data including data identifying the vehicle associated with the matched portion of the correlated vehicle data;
• and
• providing the alert data to one or more parties associated with one or more law enforcement agencies.