Washington state is coming off back-to-back record years for fatal crashes, and the aggressive and risky behavior behind the wheel isn't letting up.
Washington state is coming off back-to-back record years for fatal crashes, and the aggressive and risky behavior behind the wheel isn’t letting up.There is so much aggressive driving, so much impairment, and so much disregard behind the wheel that the King County Felony Traffic Unit currently has 147 open cases. These are cases where a person has been charged and they are awaiting the outcome of their criminal case.
“We started to see an increase on the roads with excessive speed cases, and when I say excessive speed, I’m talking about people who are driving more than 100 miles per hour,” Freedheim said.“It’s a huge uptick that continues to rise,” Freedheim said. “I mean, we keep saying, ‘Well, surely it’s got to level out,’ and it’s not. It’s continuing to rise.”
We all see it. Our driving, on the whole, has gotten a lot worse, especially with the dangerous lane changes and the speed. What’s the biggest factor in general? Impairment. Freedheim said cannabis is just as impairing as alcohol, and combining them is even worse.
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