Jesse Wells Reporting KFOR

3:13 p.m. CST, February 4, 2010
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.