A-Town Morning Call: Boscola seeks stiffer law for ice on vehicles

[Penndems]

Legislator calls for fines whether or not flying ice causes death, injury.

By Daryl Nerl Of The Morning Call

Nearly a week after ice-packed highways paralyzed cars and trucks across eastern Pennsylvania, ice from the same storm continued to pose a hazard to motorists — and state Sen. Lisa Boscola was furious.

Boscola, D-Northampton, who led a legislative effort to penalize truckers and other motorists if ice from their vehicles causes injury or death, said Tuesday that she plans to introduce a new bill to toughen the law passed last year.

At a news conference at the state police barracks in Bethlehem, she also encouraged motorists to call police when they see ice flying off another moving vehicle.

''What infuriates me more than anything else is that three or four days after the storm, ice was still flying off of trucks and cars,'' Boscola said. ''That's just blatantly reckless and irresponsible, and we have to put a stop to that.''

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[FREEWILL56]

1. something's flying

though the intent of this effort was good, i don't see this as good lawmaking, for overzealous local cops will hand out tickets left and right for a bit of snow on one's bumper or an icecicle that forms on the uncarriage. i feel that although there are some people that really don't care if ice from their car/truck hits you that this sidetracked the real problem of motorists being endangered by or stranded on ice covered roads for about a day. what about these motorist's health and safety? did the state do its job in getting rid of ice and snow or should we the people be able to fine them for their own irresponcibilities? i even see my local pd patrolling with snow and ice on the top of the patrol cars and yet they are empowered to ticket me for this? let's not deviate from the real problem here as it's not the snow and ice on the cars and trucks now is it because i can and should be a safer distance away from other vehicles during such conditions? let the law stand for being able to ticket after say a day or 2 after such bad weather stops before tickets should be allowed to fly and it damn well should be after said roads are 100% cleared of snow and ice. this state is great at saying i have to be responcible before any in the state or local governments are made to be.