Be aware: Az. Stupid Motorist Law
Just thought I'd share...mostly an issue during Monsoon season (June-Aug)... but can happen anytime in gulley washer cloudbursts... not only meant for Snowbirds... locals get suckered into "I can c...
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ScottG wrote:
So if one violates the law, ignores barricades, drives around them and gets stuck in flood waters, they get charged for emergency services?
That sounds good to me.
a paragraph in there seems to me that it is not only barricaded roads, but if you are driving and there is a small dip with no indication that it will submerge you, you are liable. don't agree with that.
B. A person convicted of violating section 28-693 for driving a vehicle into any area that is temporarily covered by a rise in water level, including groundwater or overflow of water, may be liable for expenses of any emergency response that is required to remove from the area the driver or any passenger in the vehicle that becomes inoperable in the area or the vehicle that becomes inoperable in the area, or both.
lots of places have yardsticks stuck in so you can tell the depth. if you aren't supposed to enter that area if there is any water covering the road, why the yardstick?
bumpy
