The computer system at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Comission was brought down for hours Saturday and Monday, according to the agency's website.
The system, which had been down since Saturday, were brought back online about 2:30 p.m. on Monday, but not before causing headaches for thousands of drivers across the Garden State.
State officials chalked the outage up to a "server error."
"A server error led to outages across the state IT systems this past weekend," an MVC spokeswoman said. "Technicians have been working all day and overnight to restore the systems. Most systems are back, however, the motor vehicle system that processes payments is still being repaired. We will post an advisory on our website as soon as it is back in operation."
It's not the first time the MVC has suffered computer problems: the agency's 39 offices across the Garden State were hampered by similar issues in 2016. Also that year, an I-Team investigation chronicled massive headaches for drivers.
