ON THE CUTTING EDGE: Tagging Drunken Drivers

State Delegate Marvin E. Holmes Jr. (D-Prince George's County) is proposing a bill to require MD residents who have been convicted of drunken driving three times to put special yellow license plates that read "DUI" on their cars for five years, reports The Baltimore Sun:

 

"Displaying the special license plates will give people some understanding of who they are sharing the roadways with," Marvin E. Holmes Jr., a Democrat, said at a hearing on his bill. …

There are 2,029 drivers in the state who fit that description, he said.

 

Similar legislation has been introduced in the General Assembly twice before and failed, and has had mixed success in other states. MN issues plates marked with “W” to people convicted of drunken driving, driving without insurance or a license and parking ticket scofflaws, but AR lawmakers rejected special license plates over concerns that innocent passengers would be stigmatized. OR requires drunken drivers to affix a sticker on their tags, but found that they just peeled them off.  

Posted by The Stiletto at February 1, 2010
Categories: On The Cutting Edge
 

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