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To: StAntKnee

National Aggressive Driving Action Guide
Recommendations for the Six Areas

I. Statutory Strategies
Summary

Participants at the Aggressive Driving and the Law: A Symposium declared aggressive driving to be primarily a State issue, not a Federal one. The Implementation Team therefore developed a model that State legislatures and agencies can use to create or strengthen their own aggressive or reckless driving laws. Most existing reckless driving statutes are difficult to prosecute and carry only minor sanctions. Statutes should be amended to include appropriate punishment to communicate the gravity of the offense, especially when serious injury or death results. Also, State legislators must evaluate the new technologies being developed for recording dangerous and aggressive driving conduct for later use in prosecuting the driver. The model statute and other recommended strategies are listed below....

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http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/enforce/dot%20aggress%20action/guide.htm


19 posted on 01/20/2014 10:28:27 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Your point, pls?


27 posted on 01/20/2014 10:38:56 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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