Hit-and-run victim’s family welcome new e-system to catch disqualified drivers

Karl Robertson was killed in a 2017 by a banned driver, who could not be identified due to delays in updating database

Karl Robertson, who was killed in a 2017 hit-and-run involving a man with three separate driving bans at the time, have welcomed the imminent introduction of a new electronic system to speed up the process

The family of a man who was killed in a hit-and-run by a disqualified driver have welcomed plans to speed up the transmission of the names of disqualified drivers to the Gardaí.

Under the current system, the Courts Service has to print out the names of disqualified drivers and post them to a company which then manually enters the details in the state’s driver database.

This manual process can lead to delays in updating the ...