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Commission briefs lawmakers’ priorities: expanded fatal-crash-review confidentiality, 0.05 BAC proposal, and reckless-driving change
Summary
The Traffic Safety Commission outlined an agency-request bill to designate the commission a public-health entity for confidential fatal-crash reviews and discussed a 0.05 per se BAC bill and a reckless-driving proposal that would make 30+ mph over the limit per se reckless driving.
Commission staff updated attendees on the Commission’s legislative priorities and a package of agency-request bills aimed at improving fatal-crash reviews and reducing impaired and extreme-speed incidents.
Mark McKechnie, external relations director, said the agency-request bill would ‘‘designate the commission as a public health entity for the specific purpose of traffic injury prevention, and epidemiology’’ to expand access to medical and examiner records for confidential review and explicitly exempt those reviews from public-records and public-meeting requirements. McKechnie said the statutory change is intended to…
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