NY State Senate Bill 2023-S9437

Senate Bill S9437

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires persons driving on a state expressway or thruway to pull over and seek assistance if their vehicle is unable to exceed thirty-five miles per hour

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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May 15, 2024	referred to transportation

2023-S9437 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1181, V & T L

2023-S9437 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires persons driving on a state expressway route, state interstate route, or state thruway route to pull over and seek assistance if their vehicle is unable to exceed thirty-five miles per hour.

2023-S9437 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S9437

SPONSOR: COONEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
persons driving a vehicle that is unable to exceed thirty-five miles per
hour on state expressways and thruways to pull over and seek assistance

 
PURPOSE:

This legislation requires a person driving on a state expressway or
thruway to pull over and seek assistance if their vehicle is unable to
exceed thirty-five miles per hour, and well as require the superinten-
dent to establish an accident reconstruction policy for accidents that
results in a fatality.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 Title of the bill.

Section 2. Amends section 1181 of the vehicle and traffic law by adding

a new subdivision (c)that will require a driver whose vehicle is not
able to maintain a speed of thirty-five miles per hour must safely pull
seek over and assistance.

Section 3. Amends section of the executive law to require the super-
intendent of the state police to establish an accident reconstruction
policy that results in a fatality.

Section 4. Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

In December 2017 Shawn Kruse was traveled back to Rochester, New York to
retrieve his family after a holiday visit with his mother and father.
Unfortunately, Mr. Kruse never reunited with his family as he was
involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer. A post-accident investi-
gation showed that the tractor-trailer driver was traveling at extreme
low sped, low fuel level and losing power while failing to use his emer-
gency flashers. The results were tragic for Shawn's family. This legis-
lation is a safer approach to dealing with a vehicle experiencing
mechanical failure by requiring the driver to stop and seek assistance.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New legislation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S9437 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9437
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   persons  driving  a vehicle that is unable to exceed thirty-five miles
   per hour on state expressways and  thruways  to  pull  over  and  seek
   assistance

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1181 of the vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision (c) to read as follows:
   (C)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY
 PERSON DRIVING A MOTOR VEHICLE THAT IS UNABLE TO EXCEED A SPEED OF THIR-
 TY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR ON A STATE  EXPRESSWAY  ROUTE,  STATE  INTERSTATE
 ROUTE, OR STATE THRUWAY ROUTE, AS SPECIFIED AND DESCRIBED AS SUCH PURSU-
 ANT TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE-A OF THE HIGHWAY LAW, SHALL PULL
 OVER  TO A USABLE RIGHT-HAND SHOULDER, IF AVAILABLE, EXCEPT WHEN REDUCED
 SPEED IS NECESSARY FOR SAFE OPERATION OR IN COMPLIANCE WITH LAW PURSUANT
 TO SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION, AND SEEK ASSISTANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13291-01-3

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