A Web application has made getting back behind the wheel a little more convenient for thousands of suspended drivers in Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) launched its online Driver License Eligibility application in June 2011, enabling drivers to view license reinstatement directions, pay reinstatement fees and track their driving eligibility status. More than 100,000 Texans used the system last year, accounting for nearly 70 percent of all driver’s license reinstatements in the state. Prior to the application going online, driver’s license reinstatement involved many manual tasks, including handling phone calls from suspended drivers and mail-in payment processing, said Erin Hutchins, director of portal operations for Texas.gov, which hosts the program. With 16 million drivers in the Lone Star State, an automated solution has freed up DPS workers and given customers a better overall experience dealing with the agency, officials said continue
A hit-and-run driver, who left an Orange County teenager in a vegetative state more than three years ago, pleaded not guilty on charges of driving with a suspended license in court on Wednesday. In May, WFTV recorded video of Ronald Moffett driving all over town, even though he hasn’t had a driver’s license since he left a 17-year-old Jerry Cardwell to die on the road. Because of that video, prosecutors filed the driving on a suspended-license charge. As Moffett stood in line at the Orange County courthouse, WFTV reporter Nancy Alvarez asked him what he had to say to Cardwell’s family. Moffett spent a year behind bars for the hit-and-run crash, and he could be sentenced to another year in jail if he is found guilty in this case. Cardwell’s father, who was in the courtroom Wednesday as Moffett faced the judge, told WFTV’s Nancy Alvarez continue
Police arrested a woman, stopped for a dysfunctional taillight, for marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license at 10:45 p.m. July 19. When the arresting officer first asked the woman for her license, she said she didn’t have one and that she was only driving because the female passenger, that owned the SUV, had a license restriction against her driving at night. The woman asked the officer to give her wallet and necklace to the female passenger for safekeeping. The officer found two small plastic bags of marijuana in a partially zipped pocket of the wallet and told the woman he’d bring both items to the station with them. A male passenger, seated in the back seat of the SUV, showed he had the only valid driver’s license. The female passenger continue
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