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Two years after a group of motorcyclists and a pick-up truck driven by a Massachusetts resident with a checkered driving history collided in Randolph, the State of New Hampshire says it has formally joined a nationwide effort to share certain driver’s license data with other states.
New Hampshire became the 34th state to join the State-to-State Verification Service, a voluntary collaboration that allows participating states to determine if a driver’s license applicant already holds a license in another state.
Participation in the system, which required legislative changes approved by New Hampshire lawmakers, is one of several steps taken by the state following the crash in Randolph that left seven motorcyclists dead and revealed a breakdown in cross-border record keeping in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and states across the country.