Utah Road Rage Law
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- Utah’s “Road Rage” law first of its kind in the nation
ST. GEORGE, Utah (07/02/2924) - It’s considered the toughest road rage law in the country.
A new Utah law enacted and in effect as of July 1, 2024, House Bill 30, stiffens the penalties of “road rage” incidents to a much higher degree. Drivers who are found guilty of endangering persons in another vehicle could face a minimum of $750 up to a $1,000 in fines, jail time and have their car impounded and drivers license revoked.
Law enforcement officers are in hopes the stiffer penalties will make drivers think twice before taking their anger out on another driver.
Not using turn signals? Really???
This Law really pisses me off.
Hey Utah it is illegal in all 49 other states as well 🙄🙄
Can't wait to see the unintended consequences pop-up from laws like this.
It’s going to try to infringe on the first. Going to come after the 2nd.
@@mrmcgraw3706 Seems like it already does IMO, and in a way that has already been ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.
get those dash cams installed! can't stand aggressive drivers
So giving someone the middle finger, which is free speech. Is now illegal? This is going to be challenged in court.
"With the new law in effect, officers can increase the severity of a charge if road rage is found to be a cause in the incident." This doesn't mean that you'll be arrested for giving someone the middle finger, but if you are being charged with reckless driving related things and found that road rage was also an aspect, then they can enhance the severity of the offense. Officers could do something like increase a Class B misdemeanor to a Class A.
Hell y'all.....we legalized cannabis...we gotta make another law to fill that cash gap....
tf are you on about? The state makes money off of legal cannabis and and by taxing dispensaries. You think the state made money by letting people buy it off the street?! lmao They make far more by taxing it than by penalizing it.
Don't eat yellow snow.
This law, or parts of it at the minimum, is absurdly unconstitutional - as ruled by the highest courts in these United States (Utah, remember you are one of them).
"The Supreme Court has long recognized that protected speech may include symbolic and expressive conduct - like flipping the bird - when the speaker intends to convey a message or idea."
- Professor Rachel Harmon, University of Virginia School of Law and faculty director of its Center for Criminal Justice
Making a 'rude gesture', or 'yelling' at another driver while inside the confines of my personal vehicle, are protected acts of speech in all 50 states. My message to the bad driver is to get fucked, and I am conveying that message to them.
Utahians (wtf are y'all called?) stand up against this injustice with your local and state representatives!
Everyone here really mad jsut because they dont want to be charged for being horrible drivers, drive better, its not that hard, you can potentially cause hundreds of deaths and dollars worth of damages for the stuff they are talking about in this video, everyone getitng mad at is being selfish and thinking without their brain, this id a great thing utsh is doing yet thes ehorrible drivers are acting like all their rights are being taken away, JUST DRIVE BETTER AND STOP PUTTING PEOPLE IN HARMS WAY DUE TO YOUR IMMATURE ANGER CAPACITY
Rude gestures considered road rage? So, if I'm in Utah, and I'm scratching underneath my chin, and someone thinks that I'm telling them they're a scumbag, it's now road rage? Thank goodness I don't live in Utah. More like Ut-Hell Nah.
Yeah I'm sure you'll get a ticket for scratching your chin because cops are robots and not humans who understand context and nuance.
They even said in the video such gestures are only penalized when tacked onto another moving violation. So if you cut someone off while flipping them the finger then that would fall under road rage and your ticket for cutting them off gets upgrade 1 degree. This is literally what they said in the video. "More like Ut-Hell Nah." We've reached peak boomer humor, folks.
Just another power grab.... gives the state the power to "enhance" violations and extract more money from the people.
Utah's new road rage laws are infringing on constitutionally protected rights, and blankets things for BS charges. Some of the things it lists are...
1: Yelling at other drivers, cyclists, or pedestrians.
2: Rude gestures.
3: Following too close.
4: Speeding.
5: Honking unnecessarily.
6: Not using turn signals.
Those are just a few of the things that could cost people upwards of $2000 in fines, impound fees, and towing bills.
This is an invitation for retaliatory charges, and basically a money grab. This s h i t needs shut down before it spreads.
It's being used to enhance the severity of a crime not charged AS a crime. I don't honestly see much wrong with it if it can crack down on the aggressive driving problem we have here in Utah. Hopefully it can make someone think twice before escalating a situation that should in reality, be brushed off.
lol... Good joke..!