The Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a non-profit group that monitors each state's safety regulations, has ranked Virginia in its lowest category. The group makes its determination via 15 different laws and how they are implemented. According to the group, Virginia performed poorly because many of our highway safety laws are punishable as a "secondary" offense. For example, under current law, failure to wear a seat belt is a secondary offense, meaning that one can only be fined for that offense if an officer had already stopped them for another reason. The same is true for the texting ban that took effect last July.

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