Head of Massachusetts RMV division in charge of driving records on vacation when unprocessed notices found
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is accused of crashing his pickup truck into a group of motorcyclists last month, killing seven people.
The state
The review found a backlog of out-of-state violations not registered into the Registry of Motor Vehicles computer system.
Instead they were sorted into mail bins that sat in a records room in RMV headquarters. Fifty-three bins containing tens of thousands of notices were found during a review of the process, following the deadly crash.
The same day officials discovered the thousands of unprocessed violations, the head of the subdivision in charge of updating driving records -- the Merit Rating Board -- went on vacation, the
The trip was documented on social media.
Bowes joined the department in 2016 following several decades working in the insurance industry. He has served on the town council in
The Merit Rating Board's "primary mission is to maintain and update individual driving records and to report this information to
When asked by the
Bowes is active in his position, the RMV told the Globe. He reported directly to Registrar
An outside auditor is conducting an audit of RMV procedures related to out-of-state notifications and a legislative oversight hearing has been scheduled before the
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