Abusive Driver Fees to be Repealed?

Virginia's harsh abusive driver fees that added heavy fines to many driving offenses are expected to be repealed by the legislature. The fees which went into effect in 2006, were heavily criticized as punitive, and purely enacted to increase state revenue fees for reckless driving citations, DUIs, and other criminal misdemeanor traffic related offenses.

Citizen activism and outrage throughout Virginia is believed to have played a huge part in the removal of these fees. Virginia already had some of the toughest reckless driving laws in the nation, but now with the repeal of these fees, the "$3000 speeding ticket" should now be a thing of the past.