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Committee widens penalties and adds protections for responders after crashes with emergency vehicles
Summary
The committee amended and advanced Senate Bill 2132 to create a stronger infraction for striking an authorized emergency vehicle in many on‑scene situations, added language tying protection to vehicles stationary with lights or hazard signals active, and raised the reportable damage threshold discussed in testimony.
The House Transportation Committee amended Senate Bill 2132 to broaden the circumstances in which striking an authorized emergency vehicle is an enhanced infraction and then voted to advance the bill with the changes.
Senator Dean Romo of Dickinson, the bill sponsor, told the committee the intent is to provide clearer, stronger protections when emergency vehicles are stopped or personnel are on scene. “If you plowed into them and kill them, I would say it's gonna be an infraction,” Romo said, describing cases where responders working alongside an emergency vehicle have been struck.
Tom Iverson, chief of…
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