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Old 01-20-11 | 12:20 PM
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mnemia
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Proposed Virginia Safe Passing Law

This one mostly seems pretty good: http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill...1683/fulltext/

Not a huge change, or particularly more enforceable than any of the other safe passing laws, but at least it doesn't have stuff that is negative for cyclists added in like a bunch of these recent bills in various states have. Could be useful to give the police more tools to charge drivers in the event of a collision.

Summary: the bill simply increases the minimum passing distance from 2 feet to 3 feet, and also revises the law against excessively close following (tailgating) that had referred to motor vehicles only to include all vehicles.
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