Road Safety Authority reports half a dozen cases of false identity at driving tests

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) said they have recorded half a dozen cases in recent years when they believed a person who turned up to take a driving test was not who they said they were.

The RSA said that in the period since 2021, there had been six cases where there was a “query about the candidate’s identity” and a test did not go ahead as planned.

The authority said there was one suspected case of impersonation in 2021, four in 2022, one last year, and that none have been reported so far in 2024.

They said that in some cases, the candidate may have returned with a secondary form of identity when looking to conduct a repeat test.

In other cases where the person never returned or there was a strong “suspicion that an impersonation was taking place”, gardaí were notified of the RSA’s concerns.

However, the Road Safety Authority said their driver testing service would not be informed of the outcome of the investigation and whether there was a prosecution or…

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