INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana State Police are participating in a six-state joint enforcement aimed at reducing crashes by curtailing aggressive and reckless driving.
The joint effort that began Sunday and runs through Saturday involves state troopers from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
In the state of Indiana, aggressive driving is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and fines reaching $5,000. A motorist can be charged with that offense if they commit any three of the following infractions in a single episode of continuous driving:
unsafe operation
passing on the right
unsafe stopping or slowing
unnecessary sounding of the horn
failure to yield
failure to obey traffic signals
following too closely
driving at unsafe speeds
repeatedly flashing headlights
