Woman Blames BMV For Expired-Plate Ticket

SHERIDAN, Ind. -- A Sheridan woman says the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, whose troubled July computer upgrade hindered many vehicle-registration and other transactions for days, is to blame for a $121 ticket she received for driving with an expired license plate.

Susan McGregor said she sent the BMV a check to renew her vehicle registration on June 28, more than two weeks before her license plate's July 15 expiration. By July 22, her renewal stickers had not arrived.

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As she drove to a grocery store on July 22, a Sheridan police officer pulled her over for driving with an expired plate.

"Now I have a ticket for something that I don't feel like I did. The BMV has messed up," McGregor told 6News' Norman Cox.

After getting the ticket, McGregor went to the Noblesville license branch, which she said couldn't find her records in its computers. She eventually obtained a temporary sticker.

She said the normal stickers that she requested at the end of June didn't arrive until last week.

Sheridan Police Chief Jeff Weir said he would have canceled McGregor's ticket if she had spoken to him about it. He said he can't do anything about the ticket now because it has been sent to a court.

"It's not these people's fault. It's the BMV," Weir said. "We can't fine the BMV, and we can't write the BMV tickets, or I would."

Weir said he believes that a judge will throw out the ticket, but he said he could give no guarantees.