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{"C12561CF-5056-A066-6090-A2DA631D56AD":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"C12561CF-5056-A066-6090-A2DA631D56AD","title":"Sen. Schumer Pushes for Limo Safety","summary":"Great Neck, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"October 18, 2018","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/sen-schumer-pushes-for-limo-safety","city":"Great Neck","county":"Nassau","lat":40.7743589,"lng":-73.73302939999996,"description":"On October 18th 2018, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer stood with the families of Brittney Schulman and Lauren Baruch, who were killed along with two other young women in a 2015 stretch-limo crash on Long Island. On the heels of the tragic upstate stretch-limo crash that took the lives of 20, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, with support from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, revealed a glaring gap in federal law that allows many stretch limos to skirt a licensing safety law already on the books – by exempting drivers and/or vehicles themselves from being classified as commercial, even though many carry more than the minimum number of passengers to be considered in that category. Schumer today, with support from Senator Gillibrand, pushed for a federal crackdown and review on stretch limo licenses to ensure they meet their intended classification law and are not being used to transport an unsafe or unreported number of people.\r\n“The tie that binds us on the roads today is our license, each of us has one, and they mean we’ve met the qualifications to drive the particular type of vehicle, be it a car, truck or bus. But these giant stretch limos are falling in a gap between cars and busses. And when it comes to aftermarket stretch limos that tie can become a giant loophole and safety hazard,” said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. “When talking about a stretch limo, the everyday car license held by the driver and/or the vehicle is simply not safe enough. That’s why a law on the books right now under the Motor Carrier Safety Act mandates a limo with the capacity to carry more than nine people require a special commercial driver’s license, but what we see in cases is that this law is being skirted. Stretch limos and their drivers go unchecked and accidents happen. So, while I continue working to advance limo safety regulations at the federal level, the most basic thing we can do right now is put the wheels in motion for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to launch a license crackdown and review to ensure stretch limos are following the letter of the law; not saying to the feds that they are transporting five people, while they actually cram more than a dozen people inside.” "}}

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