Philip Wigal's Law increases penalties for failing to slow down or change lanes when approaching specified stationary vehicles, vehicular homicide.
Philip Wigal's Law amends Ohio's Revised Code to increase penalties for failing to slow down or change lanes when approaching specified stationary vehicles, to increase penalties for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault resulting from that offense, and to name this act Philip Wigal's Law. The law mandates fines and suspensions of driver's licenses for offenders, with harsher penalties for repeat offenders. It also requires the Department of Transportation to include signs in construction zones warning of the penalties for failing to slow down or change lanes.
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