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AAA Urges Crackdown on Illegal Street Racing

posted 6:23 am Tue February 19, 2008 - ACCOKEEK, Md.

tags: racing • street • accokeek • aaa

AAA Mid-Atlantic is urging area law enforcement agencies to crack down on illegal street races like the one in Accokeek in which eight people were killed this weekend.

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Before dawn Saturday, a car plowed into a group that had spilled onto the road after watching two racing cars speed off on Indian Head Highway. No charges have been filed against the driver that struck the crowd. Police say the driver was not connected to the race and that smoke from the spinning tires of the cars that were racing may have obscured the crowd.

Police and local residents say street racing has long been a problem on the flat stretch of divided highway where the crash occurred, as well as in other parts of southern Maryland. AAA spokesman Mahlon Anderson is calling for stepped-up enforcement and steeper penalties for racing-related violations to combat the problem.

According to AAA, more than 100 people die and thousands are injured every year in street-racing crashes around the country.

aturday, a car plowed into a group that had spilled onto the road after watching two racing cars speed off on Indian Head Highway. No charges have been filed against the driver that struck the crowd. Police say the driver was not connected to the race and that smoke from the spinning tires of the cars that were racing may have obscured the crowd.

Police and local residents say street racing has long been a problem on the flat stretch of divided highway where the crash occurred, as well as in other parts of southern Maryland. AAA spokesman Mahlon Anderson is calling for stepped-up enforcement and steeper penalties for racing-related violations to combat the problem.

According to AAA, more than 100 people die and thousands are injured every year in street-racing crashes around the country.

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