Drivers could be unaware they have penalty points

HUNDREDS of motorists could be driving around with penalty points and not know it because of a major delay in providing €13 million to computerise the garda system, it emerged yesterday.

This follows the revelation that a Dublin woman received 12 penalty points and was effectively disqualified - before she was even notified of her first speeding offence.

There was over a month between her first speeding offence being caught on camera and the woman getting formal notification of the two penalty points by post. In the meantime, she had accrued 10 more points that effectively disqualified her from driving.