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A new push tonight to pump the brakes on so-called super speeders. Those are drivers who have been
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repeatedly caught running or speeding through red lights. Advocates say that it would prevent
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tragedies like the deaths of a mom and her young daughters all hit by a driver on Ocean Parkway
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in Brooklyn last month. All right, so how would it work? Fox 5's Linda Schmidt takes a closer look
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My son did not need to die. A parent should never have to bury their child
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Parents sharing their grief, hoping to be able to save others. She had expiring dreams of becoming a doctor or a lawyer
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I never thought her mother and I would be burying our daughter
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All of their children hit and killed by drivers who never should have been on the road
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Sam Rivera's son was on his scooter on his way to work
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He was run down by a hit-and-run driver who had three DUIs, suspended license
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Last month, a horrific crash, killing a mother and two of her children in Brooklyn
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Officials say the driver was speeding and had a suspended license Seventy percent of people who have their license suspended for being a bad driver end up driving anyway So Brooklyn State Senator Andrew Gennardis is sponsoring legislation called Stop Super Speeders
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These are people who are getting hundreds of tickets a year without consequences
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The bill would require drivers who have a series of speeding tickets to install a device in their
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vehicles that prevents them from driving above the speed limit. We have to physically force your
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car to slow down so that you don't run the risk of killing people on the streets. The senator
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test drove the technology. I literally cannot go faster than the speed limit. My foot is touching
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the floor. The way this technology works, it relies on GPS and it's already pre-programmed
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to know the speed limit on every roadway. Senator Ganardis says several states are already using
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this technology. However, his bill has been sitting in Albany since he first proposed it
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two years ago, and he is hoping the state legislature finally passes it before this
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session ends in mid-June. On the Upper East Side, Linda Schmidt, Fox 5 News
