16 Injured, Including A Five-Year-Old, In Alabama Street Racing Incident Involving Dodge Charger | Carscoops carscoops
“Why would you bring your five-year-old child to a street race or exhibition driving, is the question I would ask. Why would you do that? That makes no sense whatsoever,” Scott Thurmond, Birmingham’s police chief, told media. “Now we have 16 people who are injured as a result of that and others who are facing criminal charges. Was it worth it? I don’t think so.”
As Chief Thurmond said, the city of Birmingham has had troubles with street racing. Alabama is currently in the process of introducing new legislation in an attempt to address the problem.reports that state representative Allen Treadaway is planning to file a bill as early as January 13 that would introduce stiffer penalties for illegal exhibition driving.
Treadaway described the bill as adding “some teeth in the law,” with penalties for convicted individuals ranging from fines, to removing a vehicle, to imprisonment. In the case of the above collision, Treadaway said that the law “would make it a Class C felony.”, that could carry a prison sentence of up to 10 year. If someone is killed, meanwhile, the crime could be upgraded to a Class B felony, which carries up to a 20-year prison sentence.
“We’ve experienced dramatic decreases in that type of behavior in the downtown area where we’ve put some out. Those were test strips. We’ve ordered some more,” said Police Chief Thurmond. “Once they are here, we will be putting them out strategically throughout the city.” Although speed bump may not work on every street, Thurmond says he’s looking to the community for help, too, asking citizens who see dangerous behavior on the roads to call the police. He added, though, that this is“You’ve got auto manufacturers such as Dodgewho publicizes this type of activity and things like that,” said Thurmond. “You look on social media, YouTube, and those things, there is a plethora of this type of behavior.
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