The white van hit the gold Buick so hard that witnesses said it sounded like an explosion. It was June 2023, at the intersection of 76th Street and Florist Avenue in Milwaukee. Inside the Buick, 28-year-old father Taylor Poirier was killed instantly.
His two children in the back seat were critically hurt. Their mother, Hannah Marsden, was pregnant with twins at the time. The driver who hit them, 23-year-old Navarus Campbell, never had a license.
By the time of that crash, Campbell had racked up 27 tickets for driving on a suspended or revoked license that never existed
Police had pulled him over again and again, issuing tickets instead of arresting him.
It was all due to a “glitch” buried in Wisconsin’s traffic database. The system treated unlicensed drivers as if they were “suspended” rather than “unlicensed.”…