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Washington fatal accident rates have been spiking since enforcement rolled back. Chart created by using state and federal official accident data from 2020, 2021, and 2022 to update a chart from”Target Zero, Washington State Strategic Highway Safety Plan 2019.” Details in article.
When Washington State legislators implemented RCW 10.116.060 regarding police pursuit in 2021, they doomed hundreds of Washington motorists to early deaths in 2022. In two brief years, our enviable record of being one of the safest states for motorists has flip-flopped to where we are on track to be the worst. Twenty years of safety gains in such areas as drunk driving standards, airbags, car seats, and billions in safer highway design have been been negated with one poorly thought-out new law that lets traffic offenders flee the police with impunity. The trend is getting worse fast, as reckless car thieves and drunk drivers are quickly figuring out there is no real consequence for simply stepping on the accelerator and going ten MPH over the speed limit to avoid a traffic stop. In a few short years we’ll all be regularly losing friends and loved ones to traffic accidents, the way some of us remember from our youth. Even worse, for every death there are three to four serious maimings that will affect someone’s quality of life forever.
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