WISCONSIN (WTAQ-WRN) — Legislation to stiffen reckless driving penalties in Wisconsin is introduced.
One bill would double reckless driving citation fines and allow judges to double the jail time for criminal reckless driving offenses, with the maximum sentence increasing to three years in jail.
A second would let municipalities pass laws authorizing police to tow vehicles if a reckless driver who is caught has a previous fine for the offense within the past four years, and the fine hasn’t been paid.
The measures have bipartisan support.
They come a week after Governor Tony Evers allocated tens of millions of dollars in his proposed budget to help communities to ‘re-engineer’ roads to decrease reckless driving.
