All afternoon people were turned away from the Office of Motor Vehicles because of computer issues.
A tip to the News Ten newsroom said the OMV was experiencing some type of computer problems.
Those problems, we later learned, left OMV operators unable to print I.D’s.
One after the other, people left the local Office of Motor Vehicles in Carencro after learning they were unable to conduct their intended business.
Doris Collins and family drove in from Baldwin to get her 18-year-old daughter a license before she leaves for college.
“She needs all her information so she can go to college and she’s also going to the National Guard. So it’s kind of affecting her if she can’t get it now before graduation,” Collins explained.
Kaitlyn Gary celebrated her 21st birthday on Wednesday and came in to renew her license.
“I can’t work because I can’t drive and I don’t have a license. If I can’t work I can’t support my child so it’s definitely something that needs to be taken care of as soon as possible,” she said.
Hanna Kallwass also came to renew her license, not once, but twice on Thursday.
“I was told all the papers I would need so I went home and I got all the papers and I came back,” she said
Kallwass says when she returned she was elated to not have a long wait.
“I waited like five minutes! But then, while the lady put in my data in the computer, computer crashed,” she said.
We reached out to the office of motor vehicles, but they were unable to give us a source of the problem, other than ‘computers crash sometime’.
There’s no timeline as to when the system will be up and running so if you plan to go Friday, call the office, 225-925-6146 first.