Most lawyers in Ontario car accident will tell you that street racing may be partly blamed for the growing number of fatal car crashes. Street racing has been part of American pop culture for decades. Films like "The Fast and the Furious" have contributed to create a whole new generation of fans of street racing. Many of these street racing in Ontario cause of fatal car accidents. Even spectators often very experienced and killed speeding car career outside scrutiny.
Since 1998, participation in street racing in Ontario soared. Thousands of teenagers and young adults meet in the deserted streets after 11:00 pm on Friday and Saturday night and the race until dawn. Ontario Police believe that some nights the weekend, there are more traffic generated by street racing in the street surface on the side Interstate 15 Freeway.
Street Racing in Ontario has been a problem for decades. The activity has been fueled by accelerating the growth of an industry on the eastern coast of the city. Along the wide streets, which are viral vacuum of Traffic evening weekend, attracting crowds of young street racing devotees.
Fortunately, the police is "ON" for runners tram. Last October, the Ontario Police arrested an illegal street race on the airport west diving Etiwanda Avenue. About 100 officers from the San Bernardino Dragnet Task Force swooped in on both sides of the street to catch the runners. Both that 187 young people – many spectators all – were arrested, 47 of them minors. In addition, 73 cars were impounded for 30 days, and it will cost $ 400 plus the cost of the citation for the offender to their car back.
State is Getting tough with street racing Ontario, requiring automatic jail sentences of six months and fined $ 1,000 for a conviction. If someone is personally injured, violators could face several years in prison for manslaughter. Ontario has recently added another painful punishment – the ability to crush cars impounded caught in illegal street racing. The strategies seem to bear fruit.
These races may have contributed to many accidents in Ontario recorded by the California Highway Patrol in 2006. That year, he There were 21 deaths due to car accidents in Ontario and 1321 traffic accidents related to the accident. motorcycle accidents killed one and injured 34. DUI crashes took their toll, which represents 11 dead and 118 wounded. Five pedestrians were killed and 50 were wounded.
Consequences fatal street racing can not be overestimated. New Liberty Mutual / SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) study revealed that between 2001 and 2006, 804 people were killed in street racing incidents.
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