Human error is being blamed for a mistake at the DMV in Connecticut, USA, resulted in a life suspension for a driver not being implemented. The man, with a long history of driver while drunk, then ran down and killed a teenager.
David Weaving had no less than five convictions for DUI, he's been convicted of second degree manslaughter and is facing 10 years in prison. The DMV computer should have recorded a life time suspension of Weaving's licence, but instead it was restored after the most previous suspension ended.
"A computer system error on our records prevented a denotation on the records that he should have a lifetime suspension of the driver's license in 1999," Seymour said. "When the restoration occurred in 2004, the person doing the restoration didn't follow the procedure completely for reviewing the history that was in front of him."
Officials are hoping that a new $40million computer system planned for 2009 will avoid future such errors.
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