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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Safety advocates sound the alarm on reckless driving amid COVID-19 pandemic

(Click on the image for By Josh Rosenthal's Fox5 report)

  • “I don’t know what people are thinking but let me tell you, this is reckless, this is dangerous, and this is pernicious,” said John Townsend of AAA Mid-Atlantic.
  • “Think about this: given the level and scale of the crisis in this area, if you were to injure yourself in a car crash or someone else, where will that person be hospitalized?” So it not only impacts traffic safety, it impacts the entire healthcare system,” Townsend explained.
See also, 'Absent Traffic Jams, Many Drivers Getting More Reckless'