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House panel backs law to criminalize street takeovers, allow vehicle impoundment
Summary
The subcommittee voted 8-0 to report House Bill 2036 after testimony from Fairfax County police and family members of victims. The bill would add street takeovers and exhibition driving to Virginia's reckless driving provisions, create new spectator penalties, and permit longer impoundment and discretionary license suspension.
A House transportation subcommittee on Wednesday unanimously voted to report House Bill 2036, a measure that would make organized "street takeovers" and exhibition driving a Class 1 misdemeanor, authorize impoundment of vehicles used in such events and create new penalties for spectators.
The bill, sponsored by Delegate Eileen F. Bulova, aims to give law enforcement and judges new tools to address organized, often masked, crews who stage dangerous driving exhibitions in public streets and parking lots.
Bulova said the events often involve donuts, burnouts and drivers or passengers riding in places not designed for passengers, and that they have grown into a public-safety problem across the National Capital Region. "These events disrupt our communities, put lives…
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