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"State Traffic Standards"

Posted by Chuck Kallendorf: "USAToday.com last Wednesday morning reported that many "states were trying to put the brakes on bad driving by targeting 'super speeders,' lane hogs and those guilty of multiple moving violations."

"The moves," the article says, "come as a growing body of evidence suggests that aggressive driving -- including speeding, tailgating, changing lanes without signaling, ignoring traffic signals and weaving in and out of traffic -- is deadlier than drunken driving. An April study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that aggressive driving was a factor in 56% of all fatal U.S. crashes from 2003 through 2007."

Florida is leading the way with a new law that sends its worst drivers back to driving school, while Georgia, to cite a second state, is adding an extra $200 fine to the tickets of "super speeders" -- defined as drivers caught traveling more than 75 mph on two-lane roads or 85 mph on any road, according to the article."

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Source: Cincinnati Law Library Blog, 21 August 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).