I Looked Into Why Our Roads Are Getting Unsafe And What I Found Is INSANE

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Matt Walsh Show
Episode Title: I Looked Into Why Our Roads Are Getting Unsafe And What I Found Is INSANE
Date: April 13, 2026
Host: Matt Walsh (The Daily Wire)

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Overview

In this episode, Matt Walsh explores the alarming decline in road safety across the United States, arguing that a combination of weak law enforcement, lenient courts, demographic shifts, and reckless behaviors has created "insane" and increasingly dangerous conditions on American roads. Walsh uses recent high-profile cases, statistics, and social commentary to support his central claim: that American society's failure to enforce accountability on the roads is symptomatic of wider cultural and political decay.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Headline Tragedy: San Francisco Family Killed by Elderly Driver

• [00:00–05:35] Matt recounts a horrific incident in March 2024, in which 78-year-old Mary Fong Lao killed a family of four while speeding through a residential neighborhood in San Francisco.
  • Quote:
    "She made the decision to get behind the wheel of a car that she clearly could not control. She killed an entire family. So for the safety of society at large, we need to punish that decision as severely as we possibly can." — Matt Walsh ([03:46])
  • He criticizes the court's leniency, reporting Lao will likely receive only probation, not jail, and may not even permanently lose her license.
  • Walsh implies race-based judicial favoritism may be at play, pointing to the judge's ethnicity and willingness to show "ethnic solidarity."
  • He sees this as symbolic of failed justice:
    "If certain kinds of criminals don't even lose their license, much less their freedom, after annihilating entire families... then for all intents and purposes, traffic laws are null and void in major American cities." ([05:22])

2. The Broader Trend: Declining Enforcement and Public Standards

• [06:32–09:10] Walsh connects this tragedy to broader declines in American life post-2020, including quality of goods, the rise of drug abuse, lower educational standards, and persistent effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and BLM protests.
  • He stresses that while vehicular fatality rates remain lower than their 1980s peak, the trend toward safety is reversing, particularly since 2020.
  • Memorable framing:
    "Life never actually returned to pre-Covid levels of normalcy." ([08:37])

3. Spiking Insurance Rates as a Real-World Indicator

• [13:18–15:18] Walsh points out that insurance rates, not just fatalities, show the growing risk, noting a 60% rise in average premiums over the last five years.
  • "A bill that was once an afterthought now totals nearly $3,000 per year… Relief is on the horizon… but these numbers are still far too high, and they certainly aren't going down." ([14:25])

4. The 2020 Shift: Policing, BLM, and Lawlessness

• [15:19–18:02] Citing Steve Sailer and AAA, Walsh claims that during 2020, police largely stopped enforcing traffic laws—especially in "poor black areas"—because of fears of being targeted or called racist.
  • He highlights that the real spike in dangerous driving occurred late at night, even when roads have always been empty, implying that lack of enforcement, not pandemic-era emptiness, drove the fatality spike.
  • "People, especially in black neighborhoods, were driving like lunatics because they knew they wouldn't get a ticket." ([17:20])

5. Leniency Toward Elderly, Dangerous Drivers

• [19:50–21:26] Walsh describes another fatal incident in LA involving a 92-year-old who killed three people but faced no criminal charges.
  • He blames legislative changes in California and elsewhere that eliminated testing requirements for elderly drivers, claiming this predictably makes roads more dangerous.
  • "Simply by virtue of her age alone, she should not have been anywhere near the driver's seat of a motor vehicle." ([21:11])

6. Other Causes: Road Rage, Illegal Aliens, and DMV Corruption

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  • Road Rage:
    Shooting incidents during road rage skyrocketed—400% increase since 2014, with hundreds killed annually by other drivers.
    • Example: 2023 case where a 17-year-old girl, Louise Wilson, was murdered in Houston during a road rage incident; her killer remains at large. ([23:08–24:01])
  • Illegal Aliens and Fraudulent Licenses:
    Walsh references surging migrant populations and alleges that many immigrants “don't read street signs, use fake IDs, or aren't registered with the DMV.”
    • Kentucky DMV scheme: Staff allegedly issued hundreds of fraudulent licenses to immigrants for cash.
    • "We’ve imported so many foreigners into this country that they're taking over the DMV and handing out driver's licenses to other foreigners." ([28:25])

7. The E-Bike and Scooter Factor (Especially Among Children)

• [29:31–31:59] More children are riding e-bikes and scooters on roads, often without helmets or licenses, causing chaos and adding to accident rates.
  • News clips describe increases in pediatric ER visits and community frustrations with kids doubling up on fast-moving scooters, ignoring basic road rules.

8. Public Perception and Conclusion

• [32:00–34:01] According to Pew, 51% of American adults now believe drivers are less safe than pre-COVID, with only 9% believing safety has improved.
  • Walsh’s prescription: Return to stricter enforcement, end lenient elder/alien licensing, and ban kids from unsupervised electric vehicles.
  • Closing Warning:
    "Whenever you're sitting at a bus stop or driving on the highway, you need to act like someone could kill you at any moment and get away with it with no consequences at all." ([33:30])
    • "There's no longer any incentive for other people to drive responsibly beyond their own morality. And as these statistics very clearly show, at this point, morality is in very short supply." ([34:12])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Lawlessness and Race:
  “The judge… may have given a light sentence… namely ethnic solidarity.” ([04:58])
• On the Decline in American Life:
  “Life never actually returned to pre Covid levels of normalcy.” ([08:37])
• On Elderly Drivers:
  “After hitting a guy on a bicycle, slamming the accelerator and killing three people, this driver will not face criminal charges. That's despite the fact that simply by virtue of her age alone, she should not have been anywhere near the driver's seat of a motor vehicle.” ([21:11])
• On DMV Fraud:
  “They were at the point where we've imported so many foreigners into this country that they're taking over the DMV and handing out driver's licenses to other foreigners.” ([28:25])
• On General Road Risk:
  “Whenever you're sitting at a bus stop or driving on the highway, you need to act like someone could kill you at any moment and get away with it with no consequences at all.” ([33:30])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Case Study: San Francisco Crash & Legal Failure — [00:00–05:35]
• Analysis: Broader Post-2020 Decline — [06:32–09:10]
• Insurance Rates and Financial Indicators — [13:18–15:18]
• BLM, Police Pullback, and Enforcement Lapses — [15:19–18:02]
• Fatal Elderly Driver in LA & Licensing Laws — [19:50–21:26]
• Road Rage Shooting Increase — [22:53–24:01]
• Illegal Licenses and DMV Schemes — [26:59–28:25]
• Children, E-Bikes, and Scooter Accidents — [29:31–31:59]
• Public Attitudes & Final Warnings — [32:00–34:12]

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Takeaways

Walsh paints a picture of American roadways as increasingly lawless and perilous, blaming leniency, demographic change, and new technologies for surging accidents and deaths. He closes by calling for a return to stricter rules and awareness: until that happens, he warns, every driver and pedestrian must operate with extreme caution—because accountability and safety are “in very short supply.”

Transcript

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Watch Una San Francisco police have arrested a woman for vehicular manslaughter for a crash that killed three people, including a young child. It all happened Saturday afternoon while the victims were waiting at a bus stop near the West Portal Muni station. KTV's Ali Rasmus reports on the latest developments in that story, including the criminal charges the driver is now facing. People in the West Portal neighborhood of San Francisco left behind flowers, candles and stuffed animals at the site of this horrific crash. You can't help but notice the stroller and three pairs of shoes at the site meant to represent the three people who died Saturday afternoon. An SUV driving eastbound towards the West Portal Muni station crossed over into the westbound lanes before striking the side of the library and skidding directly into a bus shelter where a family was waiting.

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I was just right around the corner when it happened. Heard a horn go and then an almighty crash. I mean everybody in the neighborhood was out because it was so loud. I think it's brutal, just brutal.

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According to the safety advocacy group Walk sf, a father and toddler were killed when the SUV struck them. A mother and baby were seriously injured. Over the weekend we learned the mother died from her injuries at the hospital. The baby is still in critical condition. The driver of the SUV was hospitalized. This morning San Francisco police announced they arrested the driver, identified as 78 year old Mary Feng Lau.

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Now the report mentions three fatalities. But in the end, the whole family, the entire family was wiped out. A 40 year old man, his 38 year old wife and their two children. A three month old and a one year old. The whole family killed. And after the crash, witnesses reported that LA seemed to be in a daze. Then when police arrived, she began giving inconsistent statements about the cause of the crash. This is from the San Francisco Standard. Quote, Mary Fong La told a witness at the scene of the crash that she was trying to park her SUV when she accidentally moved her foot to the gas pedal, according to a police affidavit. When that happened, she didn't know what to do and couldn't stop, the documents state. But while receiving treatment at San Francisco General Hospital, Lau told police that her 2014 Mercedes Benz GLK350 had malfunctioned, causing it to suddenly accelerate before crashing into a bus shelter and library. Investigators did not find issues with Lao's car and tests taken the hospital found no drugs or alcohol in her blood, according to records. Now, based on these facts, in any sane, functioning system of government, Mary Fong Lao would be sentenced to prison for the rest of her life. She'd never be able to drive again or interact with the public in any way. It doesn't matter that she didn't intend to kill anyone. She made the decision to get behind the wheel of a car that she clearly could not control. She killed an entire family. So for the safety of society at large, we need to punish that decision as severely as we possibly can. And in the interest of justice, if you kill an entire family, you need to go to prison forever. It doesn't matter why you killed them or how you killed them, whether it was on purpose or not. There must be the most severe possible punishment for something like that, if you have any sense of justice in your society at all. But in the end, guess what punishment Mary Fong Lau is going to receive? Well, turns out that in addition to receiving no jail time, she's not even going to lose her license. This is reporting from the San Francisco Chronicle. Quote, a woman who prosecutors said killed a family of four while speeding down a residential San Francisco street will likely face no jail time or community service mandates. After pleading no contest to four felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, Judge Bruce Chan said his duty was to balance the deaths with the other factors of the case, including Laos age, her lack of criminal history, and her remorse. Chan indicated his sentence would likely be two to three years of probation, during which time Lao would be prohibited from driving. Imposing prison time on Lao would be sentencing her to die within the state prison system, Chan said. Meanwhile, survivors of the slain family accused Lau of transferring her ownership interest in several properties to new limited liability companies and selling properties to third parties, including her son in law, transferring millions of dollars to avoid potential financial penalties from the civil suit. So to recap, the woman is desperately trying to hide her money so that she doesn't have to pay the relatives of the family that she just slaughtered. She admits that she was driving the wrong way in a residential neighborhood at more than double the speed limit. And yes, she killed an entire family, including two small kids. And after all that, the judge doesn't want her to die within the state prison system because she's old and, you know, allegedly remorseful, yet she's frantically stashing her money away and she's changing her story several times. And at one point, she blamed her SUV for malfunctioning. But. But you see, she's. She's very sad. Therefore, she doesn't have to suffer any meaningful consequences whatsoever. If you kill an entire family, but you're sad about it, well, okay, that's good enough. No home detention, no fines, no prison time. And when she's 82 years old and a considerably even worse driver than she is now, she can get back behind the wheel of her Mercedes SUV and mow down more families. Now, as you might imagine, there's a lot of debate online as to how exactly this kind of sentence, or lack thereof, is even possible. One prominent left wing commentator wrote, quote, this woman killed a family speeding down a residential street, and she's not even permanently losing her driver's license. American car culture is demented. Ah, yes, car culture is to blame. But, you know, more observant commentators noticed that the judge, Bruce Chan, may have given a light sentence to Mary Fong Lao for a very different reason, namely ethnic solidarity. And it's hard not to conclude that the Cantonese judge is looking out for a member of his community who can't even speak English. We've talked about this phenomenon many times on this show, most recently in the context of the black Judge who cut a black rapist sentence in half even though he showed no remorse and indeed promised to commit more crimes as soon as he could. At a certain point, it's hard to think of another explanation for, for what's going on here. But whatever the motivation, it's not an exaggeration to say that if certain kinds of criminals don't even lose their license, much less their freedom, after annihilating entire families by going double the speed limit on the wrong side of the road, then for all intents and purposes, traffic laws are null and void in major American cities. If you could commit homicides behind the wheel with impunity, then you can speed as well. You can do hit and runs. You can get into road rage incidents all you want. You can ignore traffic lights and stop signs. The crimes you commit simply don't matter. If you have the right skin color, that is. That's certainly the lesson that many Americans have been drawing lately. I began with the story in San Francisco because it illustrates one major reason why driving has become so dangerous and unpleasant in the United States over the last six years. Laws simply are not being enforced. Criminals are not being punished, and therefore, because most people spend a lot of time on the road, life is becoming measurably worse for millions of people. It's just one more way in which our living standards have been declining. As we've discussed before on the show, the quality of food, the quality of food service have both fallen off a cliff. Construction companies have gotten much cheaper, which is why new homes often suffer from major defects, which homeowners are never reimbursed for. You know, they have to do it on their own time. Drug use has increased substantially. Television shows and movies have mostly become unwatchable. Test scores have dropped across the country. An entire generation of children spent some of the most important years of their lives under house arrest, which is a catastrophe that we'll be dealing with for many years to come. These are trends that began during COVID lockdowns and BLM hysteria, but they never, they never actually went away. Life never actually returned to pre Covid levels of normalcy. Now, to be clear, it's true that the per capita number of motor vehicle fatalities is still much lower than it was back in the 1980s and 1990s. And that's mostly because cars are bigger and have more safety features than they used to. You know, nobody's driving a Ford Pinto anymore with the gas tank at the tail end of the car. And at the same time, over the past few years, the trend towards safety has been reversing. Driving became much more dangerous around 2020. 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We'll start with this report from early 2022, which is around the time when media organizations started noticing the problem. Watch no seatbelts, speeding and impaired drivers. These trends of risky driving skyrocketed during the pandemic, which has led to more crashes and deaths than pre Covid years. And those number are reportedly staying high. We're talking an average of 100 people dying in crashes every day. Another 7,500 are injured. Estimates from the first half of 2021 indicate a nearly 20% spike in crash deaths. It's the highest six month increase ever recorded in the history of The Fatality Analyst reporting system. And all of these facts are laid out in a new annual report card on the state's highway safety laws. The report estimates the financial burden comes out to about $290 $92 billion a year in the form of medical bills, property damage, and loss of work. That's like having everyone pay a $900 crash tax annually. The financial impact, which was mentioned at the end of that clip is obviously an easy way to measure the extent of bad driving in this country and how it affects people. But there is a more straightforward metric to use, which is insurance rates. Insurance rates capture the risk from everything, not just fatalities. If an illegal alien is more likely to hit your car and then drive off, then your insurance will go up. If millions of inner city youths, as we call them now, watch videos on TikTok about how to hotwire your car in 10 seconds, then your insurance will go up. If a career criminal, having been released from jail by a Soros DA for the 50th time, is more likely to shoot you because you cut them off in traffic and your insurance will go up. None of these incidents necessarily would show up in a statistic on traffic fatalities, but they would be captured by insurance rates. So what's happening on that front? Well, if you own a car, you probably know the answer to that question. This is a report from Yahoo. News, and it was published at the end of last year. Quote, the biggest jump has been in the cost of insurance, up 60% during the last five years to an average monthly premium of about $213. A bill that was once an afterthought now totals nearly $3,000 per year and a lot more for vehicles and drivers. Relief is on the horizon. In April 2024, the annual rate of car insurance inflation peaked at 23%. It's now at a much tamer 5.3%. And the lower annual price hikes are likely to stick. So there's some good news at the end there. As the most recent data in 2025, car insurance rates are only growing by around 5% per year instead of 23. But in general, these numbers are still far too high, and they certainly aren't going down or correcting towards pre 2020 levels. So why is that? Well, to answer that question, the first thing you need to do is explain why exactly traffic fatality spiked in 2020. Steve Saylor has done a lot of work on this, and many researchers have finally come around to his conclusion, which is that during the BLM insanity of 2020, the police, for the most part, stopped enforcing traffic laws, especially in poor black areas. After all, the police didn't want to be accused of racism and they didn't want to be ambushed and murdered by BLM either. They didn't want to pull somebody over and then have that person freak out or pull a gun on them. And then they're in a position where no matter what they do, either they're going to be in debt, dead or in jail, you know. So the police drastically reduced their enforcement of traffic laws. Researchers at AAA have looked into the data as well, and here's what they found. As reported by an outlet called Streets Blog Quote the AAA study verified that the absence of traffic jams played some role in allowing drivers to reach dangerous speeds on two wide roads. But the researchers also found most significant differences between their forecast and real world Death totals happen in the dead of night, when most roads have always been congestion free. Between 10pm and 1:59am deaths were nearly 22% higher than expected during the typical morning rush hours. By contrast, Deaths were actually 6.3% lower than the model anticipated they'd be. The late afternoon and evening rush hour, meanwhile, did not differ significantly from the forecast. In other words, yeah, the lockdowns ensured the roads were empty so people could race their cars and drive at unsafe speeds without anyone getting in their way. But for the most part, the unsafe driving was taking place late at night when the roads would be clear anyway. So one conclusion you can draw is that people, especially in black neighborhoods, were driving like lunatics because they knew they wouldn't get a ticket. This is an issue that, broadly speaking, persists today, particularly in major cities. Police departments and DAs are no longer concerned with punishing criminals in order to protect the police public. As we just established, it doesn't matter how heinous the crime is. Left wing judges are still looking for ways to spring homicidal drivers out of prison, get him back on the road as soon as possible. And to be clear, the case I mentioned in San Francisco is not a cherry picked incident. Things like this happen all the time. Earlier this month there was a similar crash in Los Angeles in which an elderly woman killed several people. It was all caught on camera. Watch. Oh Jesus Christ. Oh my God. You can see the car plow straight through the front window of the 99 Ranch Market here on Westwood Boulevard near Rochester. Minutes later, firefighters scrambled to help people who were hurt. Some were trapped underneath the car. The bakery here had been crowded. This happened around 12 noon. Emergency crews were able to rescue some of the victims. For others, it was too late. Three people, two employees and one customer were killed. We've been talking to eyewitnesses here this morning. Some of them are suggesting that the elderly driver may have confused the gas pedal for the brake. In fact, one of them estimates the driver was going at least 60 miles an hour when she crashed into the store. She had hit a lady on a bike down in the crosswalk over there and she must have, you know, went into shock and just took off. So she didn't slow down. You didn't see her slow down. She accelerated. She probably meant to push on the brake, you know. According to a local news station, quote, Los Angeles fire official said the three people killed, two men ages 30 and 55 and a 42 year old woman died at the scene. Two men, both 35, were taken to the hospital in critical condition, the AP reports, while two others, ages 37 and 38, were hospitalized in fair condition. KTLA's Eric Spillman reported Friday morning that a fire department spokesperson told the Associated Press the 92 year old driver was cooperating with investigators, was not injured and would not face criminal charges. Yes, you heard that correctly. After hitting a guy on a bicycle, slamming the accelerator and killing three people, this driver will not face criminal charges. That's despite the fact that simply by virtue of her age alone, she should not have been anywhere near the driver's seat of a motor vehicle. She obviously wasn't capable of driving safely, just like the Asian woman who killed that entire family. And for making the extremely reckless decision to drive anyway, she will suffer no consequences at all. The state of California has done everything in its power to make incidents like this more common. Did you know that the average employer sorts through about 250 resumes for a single job opening? It's an outright productivity nightmare. 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And it's not just the elderly who are contributing to this trend, of course. Road rage incidents, which mostly involve younger men, especially in urban areas, have been drastically increasing in a relatively short period of time. The outlet the Trace reports that quote, Between 2014 and 2023, the number of people shot in road rage incidents surged more than 400% from 92 to 481, according to a Trace analysis of data from the non profit Gun Violence Archive. All told, angry driver shot 3,095 people over that decade, or nearly one every day. One in four of those people were killed. Someone was shot in a road rage incident on average every 18 hours in 2023, up from once every four days in 2014. And again, none of these fatalities would count as motor vehicle deaths. They don't show up in the data that shows how much safer driving is today compared to the 1980s. But it's a big problem and it's getting much worse. Post Covid as this chart illustrates, which you can see, this shows road ra road rage shooting incidents. There's the 449 increase from 2014 to 2023, which rapidly accelerated after 2020. And the data includes shootings like the one that took place at 1am on December 10, 2023 in Houston when a 17 year old white female driver named Louise Jean Wilson swerved to avoid an accident. In the process, she cut off another driver who then opened fire and murdered her. Watch Castro. New this afternoon, developments in a road rage shooting that took the life of a 17 year old driver last month.

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Today, Houston police released a new sketch of the suspected gunman during a news conference where the teen's parents gave a tearful plea for answers. Our Michelle Choi is at Houston Crime Stoppers with the very latest. Yeah, Houston police Crime Stoppers and The parents of 17 year old Louise Wilson are hoping this new sketch and an increased Reward up to $20,000 will lead them to her killer. More than a month after Luis was gunned down in her vehicle, Houston police say they still haven't gotten any solid leads or tips. On Thursday, her parents once again pleaded

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for answers to the people of Houston, please help get this animal off your streets.

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And had this stern message for their daughter's killer.

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You're a coward. But unlike how you have taken Louise's life, we have taken yours. We have just given you up to 20,000 reasons to doubt and not trust everyone in your world right now.

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HPD released this sketch of the alleged gunman who they describe as a man in his mid-20s with short dreadlock style hair that has blonde dye in places.

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Now, that report is from more than two years ago. And guess what? The shooter still has not been caught, even though there are traffic cameras and ring cameras everywhere. Apparently, the city's cameras on the highway were only used for live viewing and none of the footage was saved. In response to the murder, Texas lawmakers decided to make it a first degree felony to draw a gun during a road rage incident. So, you know, that's something. I guess it's not clear why it wasn't a first degree felony already. But again, this woman's killer is still out on the streets. And indeed, many road rage incidents turn out like this. They aren't easy crimes to solve, even when video footage exists. That's because since 2020, after the Biden administration opened the border to the entire world, there are many, many more untraceable criminals who are living in this country. It's hard to comprehend the scale of this transformation. So take a look at this chart. It provides some very important context. It shows that under the Biden administration, 8% of the population of Nicaragua and 7% of the population of Cuba entered the United States in just four years. The numbers are only slightly smaller for Haiti and Honduras. Yes, 8% of the entire country of Nicaragua, 8% of their total population, just to be clear, entered the US Under Joe Biden, a similar percentage of Cubans and Haitians enter the United States as well. These are staggering numbers. And these people bring with them in many cases, Third World attitudes and impulse control issues. Many of them have fake IDs. They have no traceable next of kin. They're not registering their vehicles with the DMV and paying for insurance like you are. They aren't using valid license plates. So what happens when you cut them off in traffic and they start blasting? Well, obviously it's very hard for police to identify them. No one in their community is going to turn them in. They're not in any database. The investigation stalls. That's not even getting into the topic of how many of these people have commercial driver's licenses. They're driving big rigs and ramming them into innocent people on the highway. We we're not going to go into depth on that problem because we've done so on that topic many times before. But it's becoming a bigger issue, especially because many DMVs from New York to California are handing out driver's licenses to illegal aliens in exchange for cash. So these illegals in many cases aren't even passing the tests in any way, shape or form. Here's the latest example. This is from Kentucky just last week, people accused of running a driver's license scheme in Louisville are now facing federal charges for them appeared in court today.

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Jamie Mays joins us live to tell us what what happened in front of the judge.

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Jamie.

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Rick Vicki, the defendants who appeared in court pleaded not guilty today. The fifth suspect does not have any record of his arrest just yet, but all are accused of working together, charging immigrants hundreds of dollars for illegal licenses. A new indictment describes the elaborate scheme targeting people who didn't know how to get a driver's license in Kentucky. The document says starting no later than November 1, 2023, Raul Telez Ojeda Lozaro, Alejandro Costello Rojas and Robert Danger Correa recruited people who were immigrants and offered to get them a license by avoiding a line and bypassing testing requirements at the driver Licensing Regional office at the NEA Center. Those applicants were allegedly told Fees ranged from 200 to to $1,500 and were made to believe the process was legal. The indictment says the suspects often escorted applicants on the day of their appointment and told them where to wait and when to enter the NEIA Center. Many of the applicants had difficulty speaking English as part of the scheme. Danita Wilson and Ariel Matthews, who worked as temp workers at the NEIA center, are accused of manually changing the status of driver's license records so the system would recognize licenses that did not exist.

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So to recap, the names of the DMV workers who are allegedly involved in this scheme are Raul Talez, Ojedo Lazaro, Alejandro Castello Rojas and Robert Danger Korea. Notice any patterns there? They were at the point where we've imported so many foreigners into this country that they're taking over the DMV and handing out driver's licenses to other foreigners. And this is a big problem because as we've seen, entire families are getting wiped out by foreigners who can't read street signs, who disobey traffic laws text on their phones instead of paying attention to the road. We've covered many of these stories over the past year, but admittedly, when it comes to explaining why driving is so terrible now, there are many more factors to consider. Even when road rage and commercial trucking aren't directly involved, drivers have become a lot more unpredictable. And that's showing up in the data, too, according to researchers at Columbia University. Quote Roadway mortality was declining in New York state before the COVID 19 pandemic. Since the pandemic, mortality increased and did not return to pre pandemic levels as the pandemic receded. That research was published late last year. So as of 2025, we still aren't back to pre Covid levels of danger on the roadways. And here's one reason for that which you may have noticed in your neighborhood. Quote Access to shared motorized two wheeled vehicles such as e bikes is proliferating ahead of injury prevention strategies to address the mortality increase. This is a major problem that's getting much worse with each passing year. Children, often without helmets, are riding motorized scooters and E bikes on the roads. They're not obeying traffic laws. Many of them don't have a license. And predictably, they're getting into accidents with vehicles. Watch. In recent years, electric scooters and E bikes have become more popular as more people ride them. Dr. Chelsea Kadish says more kids are getting hurt. I would say over the last few years, it's been increasing exponentially. Katish is an emergency department department doctor

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at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She's urging parents to talk with their kids about wearing helmets.

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Right now on the CBS13 News at

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5:30 Frustrations in Folsom over kids riding E bikes and e scooters illegally.

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Some drivers are now getting in near miss accidents with children riding around. Your reporter covering Sacramento County, Tori Abadaka is joining us Live getting answers on

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how the city is now responding to people's concerns here. Tory. This area just off of Blue Ravine is really one of the prime spots where we have seen dozens of kids riding around all afternoon. Some drivers say that the way that these kids are riding those electric bikes and scooters is becoming outright dangerous.

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I'm very concerned for the children. I think it's very dangerous. They ride in the street like motorcycles.

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From kids doubling up on a single e scooter through busy intersections to others stopped at red lights without a helmet. They could cause like a collision or issue with somebody on the road. If the person driving isn't paying attention. School's out. And so are the surge of kids riding their e bikes and e scooters, sometimes dangerously. Last week of school I saw third graders riding e scooters to school. Just, just last week, a 13 year old in South Lake Tahoe tragically died when she was hit by a car while riding her e bike.

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All of those factors combined. The number of illegal aliens on the road, the refusal of left wing judges and DAs to prosecute traffic offenders, the increased number of elderly drivers who don't have to get tested before their licenses are renewed, the rise in e bikes and scooters that kids are driving around. Put it all together and you get this statistic. It's from Pew and it shows that as of 2024, 51% of American adults who drive at least once per week think people are driving less safely in their neighborhoods as compared to pre Covid. By contrast, only 9% of American adults think drivers are now driving more safely. The rest either aren't sure or don't think there's much of a change. These numbers mostly hold up in every environment from urban to suburban to rural. The good news is that based on the data, it's very obvious how we can fix this problem. Everything was going fine right up until around 2020. That's when we let more elderly people on the roads. That's when we let a vast number of new illegal aliens into the country. That's when we stopped enforcing traffic laws. That's when kids didn't have access to these dumb scooters. If we simply return to that status quo circa 2020, then, you know, things will be relatively fine. But until that happens, for your own sake and, and for your family's sake, you need to proceed with extreme caution if you're anywhere near a major roadway. One of the defining features of the third world is that the roads are unsafe and chaotic. And as our country has imported more of the third World. The roads have reflected that. So whenever you're sitting at a bus stop or driving on the highway, you need to act like someone could kill you at any moment and get away with it with no consequences at all. You should buy a car and pick your routes with that fact in mind, because that's the reality now. There's no longer any incentive for other people to drive responsibly beyond their own morality. And as these statistics very clearly show, at this point, morality is in very short supply.

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