5 - Year - Old dies, texter pays only $1000 fine, will 'jake's law' help?

if you are texting and driving in Maryland and you 'cause a car accident you could face tougher penalties as a result of that at least that's what some people are proposing under new legislation titled Jakes law now Jakes law is named after a five year old who was killed in the back seat of a car after someone with texting and driving then rear-ended the car and he died as a result of that terrible story and so as a result you know of course the mother decided to go after the person who's texting and driving but since there are no laws on the books that would allow her to go after for criminal purposes he only got off with a thousand dollar fine now jeeps law would mean jail time for those who are texting and driving in the cause a serious crash let me give you some more details about it it would penalize distracted drivers found guilty of causing a serious or fatal crash with up to three years in jail a five thousand dollar fine and 12 points on their driver's license another for the license to be suspended the bill would also require suspected distracted drivers to give police their cell phone number carrier and email address an earlier version of the legislation called for drivers to surrender their phones to police for inspection but that section has been removed so basically what would happen is they would get you have the ability to contact the phone carrier and then investigate that Wayne said looking through the phone so let me get this right is is it just for after a crash they investigate to see if your texting or could it be that guy who you're driving distracted now give me all your stuff anong receive you text that things well it's only after crash so would have to be a crash it doesn't even have to be a fatal crash let's say you cause a car accident and for some reason the officer suspects that you were distracted while driving like in this particular case where this five-year-old I'd %uh the guy was going over sixty miles an hour when he crashed into the car so obviously he was a pain tension on he was looking down so under circumstances like that the officer can have a reasonable suspicion that you know there was some sort distraction I think I'm in favor this law I would favor a bit as well I i'm gonna be 100 percent honest there have been times when I stop at a red light sometimes I pick up my phone really quick to check and I need to stop doing that I don't do it while I'm driving up but this was a huge wake-up call for me like put your phone in your purse put in the back seat stay the hell away from it because when you're distracted even per second you never know the car in front of me was gonna do they can slam on their brakes and ball before you know it you're crashing into them yeah I want to go back fifteen years ago in Miami me being the know that I am I use try to read while driving to be more love looks like the worst thank you wanted damn thing to do rate so of course I wouldn't read too home on the highway lie what more through July right but like just like you said red lights et cetera and there was one lighter intersection way was I look this way and I was positively give the guy had left but I we've had just been reading the paper though well right now back to his car was a warm New Moon and then I promise not to read in the car anymore I'm any look I am in perfect about that either and but you're right a here's another really scary story ever when I was a kid having a ring to it being distracted or anything but no there is a pile of leaves a group in New Jersey's is a and in Neftali sleeves pile-up are in often people will rake them back that day before we are there knowing leaf blowers at the real story goes everywhere maybe these huge possibly by the curb and now my friend and I were saying hey should we drive to others I could be fun and like I let's not do it Ono there was a person in it there was a kid in there like we didn't do it and literally the kid popped his head up outta there rate leaf pile I was a kid oh my god oh my God thank God we make that mistake great and so driving is the most important thing you do because it's the most likely take have devastating consequences for you or someone else so you gotta be paying as much attention as possible if they were taking this every opportunity to try to bust people are looking to their private lives oh I thought you were driving kinda funny give me your phone I would hate that and I would be totally against thing right there will be abuses I'm gonna be completely honest with you me but I do think I do believe in tougher penalties for those who are driving while they're distracted and look they have to prove that you were distracted while you're driving and if there's been an accident well then tracing back what happened in that accident i think is totally your