Personal Injury Law

Yellow license plate would be required for DUI drivers, under proposed WA bill

By Kirk Bernard, Esq.

Drunk drivers in Washington State may soon have their own fluorescent yellow license plate.

Republican state senator Mike Carrell is sponsoring a bill that would require a person convicted of DUI to drive a vehicle with front and rear fluorescent yellow license plates.

The same thing was required in Ohio four years ago.

"I believe shame will keep people from doing it. Looking at somebody who is driving around with a fluorescent yellow license plate should be a good reason for others to decide 'I don't want to have my neighbors knowing that I'm a drunk,'" said Carrell.

Under the proposal, if someone is a convicted DUI offender and they?re caught driving without the special license plate, they could be charged with a Washington misdemeanor.

Full post as published by Seattle Injury Blog on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).