DMV Reviews How Speeder Kept License Until Fatal Drive : Aftermath: Spokesman blames glitch in system for allowing young man with four speeding tickets in a year before Silverado Canyon tragedy to keep driving.

SILVERADO CANYON — As funeral services were arranged Thursday for the 20-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a chronic speeder, the Department of Motor Vehicles began reviewing a program that allowed the driver to remain on the road.

Funeral services for Jasmin Cook will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Silverado Community Church in Silverado Canyon. Responding to news reports that Cook’s parents, Ed and Tyra Cook, didn’t have enough money to bury their daughter, the Shannon-Donegan Mortuary in Orange offered free services, said funeral director Gene Beckerbauer.

Cook died Sunday when a driver of a truck struck her and two others--Shane Graham, 19, and Timothy Smart, 21. Graham was released from the hospital Wednesday and Smart remains at Western Medical Center-Santa Ana in stable condition.

Police said the driver, Shane Young, may have been racing with another driver heading west along Silverado Canyon Road when he swerved into the threesome near Shady Brook Drive. Young was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and felony driving under the influence. The second driver, 19-year-old Clint Wamsley, was held on the same charges.

Young acquired four speeding tickets between May 16, 1993, and May 16, 1994, which was enough to get his license revoked, according to DMV officials. But he was allowed to retain his driving privileges because of a glitch in a 20-year research program that tracks errant drivers. But even if the department had suspended Young’s license, he could have gotten it back by Monday through the DMV’s hearing process, said DMV spokesman Bill Madison.

Madison said DMV officials met Thursday to review the program, called Negligent Operator Treatment Evaluation System. The focus of the review is to determine whether a chronic speeder such as Young could slip through the system again, Madison said.

“If the answer is yes, then we want to look at how we can change it,” Madison said. “For now, the program is not scheduled to end.”

Meanwhile, residents in the tightly knit Silverado Canyon community are trying to comfort the Cook family with moral and financial support. A trust fund for the family has been established, Silverado Canyon resident Judy Okonski said.

“We felt like the Cook family has other needs,” Okonski said.

More than $300 was collected Wednesday, said Judi Davis of Canyon Market, where the cash collection was taken in a coffee pot. Residents are also considering installing a plaque just outside of town urging drivers to slow down for the sake of the children, said Davis, whose granddaughter regularly plays on the same street where Cook was killed.