OKLAHOMA CITY -- Anyone who gets behind the wheel of a car in Oklahoma during bad weather may soon have to make sure they use their headlights. That's the goal of a new bill being discussed at the State House. The bill requires that if your windshield wipers are on because of bad weather, your headlights also have to be in use; that includes rain, fog or snow.
The bill's author calls it a common sense safety change.
"You'd like to think when people get in their cars they turn the lights on. Hopefully requiring them to do it will save a few lives in weather like this," says state Senator Joe Sweeden.
Right now the bill doesn't include any specific fines, but those penalties could be worked out down the line.
The bill's author calls it a common sense safety change.
"You'd like to think when people get in their cars they turn the lights on. Hopefully requiring them to do it will save a few lives in weather like this," says state Senator Joe Sweeden.
Right now the bill doesn't include any specific fines, but those penalties could be worked out down the line.
