"If Your Wipers Are On, Your Lights Should Be Too"
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(KCPW News) If you're using your windshield wipers, you should have your lights on too, according to some motor safety advocates. That's the gist of a new law being proposed by 16-year old Chloe Dauwalder, who's had her driver license for less than a year. She's convinced her legislator to sponsor the measure as part of her effort to get the Girl Scouts Gold Award.Dauwalder is a Winter Olympic athlete-in-training and came up with the idea for the new law during her commute from Utah County to Park City several times a week. A similar rule already exists in code, but a committee lawmakers gave her proposal preliminary approval this week.
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1. Bruce Whitehead said:
I am happy to hear about a return to a concept that was a "rule of thumb" about 25 years ago, or so. That was well before the days of automatic headlights.
2. Susan Jenkins said:
This has to be a GREAT THING for the people of Utah--Thank you CHLOE! She sounds like a very competent young woman and Girl Scout who would propose such a novel idea! I'm glad that she was perceptive enough to see a problem and to act upon it. Great JOB CHLOE!