Motorist avoids conviction after failing to get policy app

A young motorist who failed to download an app which monitored her driving as part of her insurance policy has avoided a conviction for driving without insurance.

Modern technology was now “applying itself” to road traffic legislation, Judge James O’Connor remarked at Killarney District Court, and he was striking out a prosecution for no insurance.

The judge said it would not be fair to impose a conviction on the 23-year-old motorist for having no insurance after hearing how her policy was cancelled because she had failed to download an app onto her mobile phone.