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00:00:55.840 In March of 2024, a 78-year-old woman in San Francisco named Mary Fong Lau was driving her Mercedes SUV around 70 miles an hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone on the wrong side of the road in the residential neighborhood known as West Portal.

00:01:12.480 But she didn't get very far. Within seconds, she obliterated a family of four that was waiting at a bus stop to go to the zoo. Watch.

00:01:19.280 una san francisco police have arrested a woman for vehicular manslaughter for a crash that killed

00:01:24.960 three people including a young child it all happened saturday afternoon while the victims

00:01:29.680 were waiting at a bus stop near the west portal muni station ktv's ali rasmus reports on the

00:01:34.900 latest developments in that story including the criminal charges the driver is now facing

00:01:39.440 people in the west portal neighborhood of san francisco left behind flowers candles and stuffed

00:01:45.200 animals at the site of this horrific crash. You can't help but notice the stroller in three pairs

00:01:50.380 of shoes at the site meant to represent the three people who died. Saturday afternoon, an SUV driving

00:01:55.980 eastbound towards the West Portal Muni station crossed over into the westbound lanes before

00:02:00.320 striking the side of the library and skidding directly into a bus shelter where a family was

00:02:05.660 waiting. I was just right around the corner when it happened, heard a horn go, and then an almighty

00:02:13.260 crash. I mean, everybody in the neighborhood was out because it was so loud. I think it's brutal,

00:02:19.620 just brutal. According to the safety advocacy group Walk SF, a father and toddler were killed

00:02:25.180 when the SUV struck them. A mother and baby were seriously injured. Over the weekend, we learned

00:02:30.120 the mother died from her injuries at the hospital. The baby is still in critical condition. The driver

00:02:35.240 of the SUV was hospitalized. This morning, San Francisco police announced they arrested the

00:02:40.600 driver identified as 78-year-old Mary Fong Lau. Now, the report mentions three fatalities,

00:02:47.260 but in the end, the whole family, the entire family was wiped out. A 40-year-old man,

00:02:51.480 his 38-year-old wife, and their two children, a three-month-old and a one-year-old. The whole

00:02:56.380 family killed. And after the crash, witnesses reported that Lau seemed to be in a daze.

00:03:02.140 Then, when police arrived, she began giving inconsistent statements about the cause of

00:03:05.780 the crash. This is from the San Francisco Standard, quote, Mary Fong Lau told a witness at the scene

00:03:11.440 of the crash that she was trying to park her SUV when she accidentally moved her foot to the gas

00:03:15.560 pedal, according to a police affidavit. When that happened, she didn't know what to do and couldn't

00:03:19.800 stop, the documents state. But while receiving treatment at San Francisco General Hospital,

00:03:24.100 Lau told police that her 2014 Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 had malfunctioned, causing it to suddenly

00:03:31.540 accelerate before crashing into a bus shelter and library. Investigators did not find issues

00:03:36.800 with Lau's car, and tests taken in the hospital found no drugs or alcohol in her blood, according

00:03:41.360 to records. Now, based on these facts, in any sane, functioning system of government, Mary

00:03:48.540 Fong Lau would be sentenced to prison for the rest of her life. She'd never be able 0.85

00:03:54.040 to drive again or interact with the public in any way. It doesn't matter that she didn't

00:04:00.160 intend to kill anyone. She made the decision to get behind the wheel of a car that she clearly

00:04:05.760 could not control. She killed an entire family. So for the safety of society at large, we need 0.99

00:04:14.360 to punish that decision as severely as we possibly can. And in the interest of justice,

00:04:18.640 if you kill an entire family, you need to go to prison forever. It doesn't matter why you killed

00:04:22.220 them or how you killed them, whether it was on purpose or not, there must be the most severe

00:04:27.700 possible punishment for something like that, if you have any sense of justice in your society at

00:04:33.400 all. But in the end, guess what punishment Mary Fong Lau is going to receive? Well, 0.96

00:04:40.100 turns out that in addition to receiving no jail time, she's not even going to lose her license.

00:04:47.320 This is reporting from the San Francisco Chronicle, quote, a woman who prosecutors said killed a

00:04:51.120 family of four while speeding down a residential San Francisco street will likely face no jail time

00:04:56.020 or community service mandates after pleading no contest to four felony counts of gross vehicular

00:05:01.240 manslaughter. Judge Bruce Chan said his duty was to balance the deaths with the other factors of

00:05:07.020 the case, including Lau's age, her lack of criminal history, and her remorse. Chan indicated his

00:05:11.040 sentence would likely be two to three years of probation, during which time Lau would be

00:05:15.380 prohibited from driving, imposing prison time on Lau would be sentencing her to die within the

00:05:19.580 state prison system, Chan said. Meanwhile, survivors of the slain family accused Lau of transferring

00:05:24.860 her ownership interest in several properties to new limited liability companies and selling

00:05:29.700 properties to third parties, including her son-in-law, transferring millions of dollars 0.73

00:05:33.420 to avoid potential financial penalties from the civil suit. So to recap, the woman is desperately

00:05:40.780 trying to hide her money so that she doesn't have to pay the relatives of the family that she just 1.00

00:05:45.740 slaughtered. She admits that she was driving the wrong way in a residential neighborhood at more

00:05:50.460 than double the speed limit. And yes, she killed an entire family, including two small kids.

00:05:56.080 After all that, the judge doesn't want her to die within the state prison system because she's old

00:06:02.040 and allegedly remorseful. Yet she's frantically stashing her money away and she's changing her 0.94

00:06:08.720 story several times. And at one point she blamed her SUV for malfunctioning. But you see, she's 0.73

00:06:14.260 she's very sad. Therefore, she doesn't have to suffer any meaningful consequences whatsoever.

00:06:21.480 If you kill an entire family, but you're sad about it, well, okay, that's good enough.

00:06:27.440 No home detention, no fines, no prison time. And when she's 82 years old and a considerably

00:06:34.340 even worse driver than she is now, she can get back behind the wheel of her Mercedes SUV and 0.99

00:06:40.140 mow down more families. Now, as you might imagine, there's a lot of debate online as to how exactly 0.58

00:06:46.840 this kind of sentence or lack thereof is even possible. One prominent left-wing commentator

00:06:52.160 wrote, quote, this woman killed a family speeding down a residential street and she's not even 0.97

00:06:56.400 permanently losing her driver's license. American car culture is demented. Ah, yes, car culture 1.00

00:07:04.140 is to blame. But you know, more observant commentators noticed that the judge, Bruce

00:07:10.560 Chan, may have given a light sentence to Mary Fong Lau for a very different reason, namely

00:07:16.100 ethnic solidarity. It's hard not to conclude that the Cantonese judge is looking out for a member 0.64

00:07:22.120 of his community who can't even speak English. We've talked about this phenomenon many times 0.91

00:07:27.280 on this show, most recently in the context of the black judge who cut a black rapist sentence in 0.96

00:07:32.700 half, even though he showed no remorse and indeed promised to commit more crimes as soon as he 0.88

00:07:38.580 could, at a certain point, it's hard to think of another explanation for what's going on here.

00:07:46.020 But whatever the motivation, it's not an exaggeration to say that if certain kinds

00:07:49.860 of criminals don't even lose their license, much less their freedom, after annihilating entire

00:07:55.180 families by going double the speed limit on the wrong side of the road, then for all intents and

00:08:00.680 purposes, traffic laws are null and void in major American cities. If you can commit homicides

00:08:07.620 behind the wheel with impunity, then you can speed as well. You can do hit and runs. You can

00:08:13.260 get into road rage incidents all you want. You can ignore traffic lights and stop signs.

00:08:19.500 The crimes you commit simply don't matter. If you have the right skin color, that is. 1.00

00:08:24.420 that's certainly the lesson that many americans have been drawing lately i began with the story 0.99

00:08:31.060 in san francisco because it illustrates one major reason why driving has become so dangerous and

00:08:35.760 unpleasant in the united states over the last six years laws simply are not being enforced

00:08:41.460 criminals are not being punished and therefore because most people spend a lot of time on the

00:08:46.020 road life is becoming measurably worse for millions of people it's just one more way in

00:08:52.740 which our living standards have been declining.

00:08:54.860 As we've discussed before on the show,

00:08:56.800 the quality of food,

00:08:58.860 the quality of food service

00:09:00.740 have both fallen off a cliff.

00:09:02.680 Construction companies have gotten much cheaper,

00:09:05.240 which is why new homes often suffer

00:09:06.620 from major defects,

00:09:08.060 which homeowners are never reimbursed for.

00:09:11.900 You know, they have to do it on their own dime.

00:09:13.780 Drug use has increased substantially.

00:09:16.300 Television shows and movies

00:09:17.500 have mostly become unwatchable.

00:09:19.860 Test scores have dropped across the country.

00:09:22.740 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. 0.53

00:09:32.040 These are trends that began during COVID lockdowns and BLM hysteria, but they never actually went away. 0.83

00:09:37.700 Life never actually returned to pre-COVID levels of normalcy.

00:09:43.140 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.

00:09:52.740 And that's mostly because cars are bigger and have more safety features than they used to.

00:09:58.420 You know, nobody's driving a Ford Pinto anymore with the gas tank at the tail end of the car.

00:10:03.180 And at the same time, over the past few years, the trend towards safety has been reversing.

00:10:08.600 Driving became much more dangerous around 2020.

00:10:11.640 And while things have improved somewhat in the past 12 months or so, they haven't improved as much as you might expect.

00:10:17.660 And in some categories, like the number of road rage incidents, the numbers are still getting worse.

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00:11:51.720 So let's dive into the specific numbers that I'm talking about, and then we'll try to explain why these numbers haven't returned to normal ranges.

00:11:59.600 We'll start with this report from early 2022, which is around the time when media organizations started noticing the problem.

00:12:06.840 Watch.

00:12:07.540 No seatbelts, speeding and impaired drivers.

00:12:11.240 These trends of risky driving skyrocketed during the pandemic, which has led to more crashes and deaths than pre-COVID years.

00:12:18.880 And those numbers are reportedly staying high.

00:12:22.240 We're talking an average of 100 people dying in crashes every day.

00:12:27.460 Another 7,500 are injured.

00:12:29.680 Estimates from the first half of 2021 indicate a nearly 20% spike in crash deaths.

00:12:34.680 It's the highest six-month increase ever recorded in the history of the fatality analyst reporting system.

00:12:42.460 And all of these facts are laid out in a new annual report card on the state's highway safety laws.

00:12:48.220 The report estimates the financial burden comes out to about $292 billion a year

00:12:53.420 in the form of medical bills, property damage, and loss of work.

00:12:58.120 That's like having everyone pay a $900 crash tax annually.

00:13:04.400 The financial impact, which was mentioned at the end of that clip,

00:13:07.440 is obviously an easy way to measure the extent of bad driving in this country

00:13:11.620 and how it affects people.

00:13:13.160 But there is a more straightforward metric to use, which is insurance rates.

00:13:16.980 insurance rates capture the risk from everything, not just fatalities. If an illegal alien is more

00:13:23.340 likely to hit your car and then drive off, then your insurance will go up. If millions of inner 1.00

00:13:30.020 city youths, as we call them now, watch videos on TikTok about how to hotwire your car in 10 0.95

00:13:36.180 seconds, then your insurance will go up. If a career criminal having been released from jail

00:13:41.400 by a Soros DA for the 50th time is more likely to shoot you because you cut them off in traffic, 0.68

00:13:46.020 and your insurance will go up. None of these incidents necessarily would show up in a statistic

00:13:51.260 on traffic fatalities, but they would be captured by insurance rates. So what's happening on that

00:13:57.700 front? Well, if you own a car, you probably know the answer to that question. This is a report

00:14:02.300 from Yahoo News and it was published at the end of last year. Quote, the biggest jump has been

00:14:07.560 in the cost of insurance up 60% during the last five years to an average monthly premium of about

00:14:13.160 $213. A bill that was once an afterthought now totals nearly $3,000 per year and a lot more

00:14:20.580 for vehicles and drivers. Relief is on the horizon. In April 2024, the annual rate of car insurance

00:14:26.340 inflation peaked at 23%. It's now at a much tamer 5.3%, and the lower annual price hikes are likely

00:14:34.260 to stick. So there's some good news at the end there. As the most recent data in 2025, car insurance

00:14:40.000 rates are only growing by around 5% per year instead of 23%. But in general, these numbers

00:14:47.280 are still far too high. And they certainly aren't going down or correcting towards pre-2020 levels.

00:14:55.480 So why is that? Well, to answer that question, the first thing you need to do is explain why

00:15:00.180 exactly traffic fatalities spiked in 2020. Steve Saylor has done a lot of work on this,

00:15:06.420 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.

00:15:20.960 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. 0.71

00:15:28.800 They didn't want to pull somebody over and then have that person freak out or pull a gun on them. 0.81

00:15:34.380 and then they're in a position where no matter what they do,

00:15:38.020 either they're going to be dead or in jail.

00:15:41.180 So the police drastically reduced their enforcement of traffic laws.

00:15:46.600 Researchers at AAA have looked into the data as well,

00:15:50.460 and here's what they found, as reported by an outlet called Streets Blog.

00:15:53.940 Quote,

00:15:54.180 The AAA study verified that the absence of traffic jams played some role

00:15:58.060 in allowing drivers to reach dangerous speeds on too wide roads,

00:16:02.020 But the researchers also found the 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.

00:16:11.300 Between 10 p.m. and 1.59 a.m., deaths were nearly 22% higher than expected during the typical morning rush hours.

00:16:18.600 By contrast, deaths were actually 6.3% lower than the model anticipated they'd be.

00:16:23.740 The late afternoon and evening rush hour, meanwhile, did not differ significantly from the forecast.

00:16:29.660 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.

00:16:36.640 But for the most part, the unsafe driving was taking place late at night when the roads would be clear anyway. 0.95

00:16:42.460 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. 0.76

00:16:52.120 This is an issue that, broadly speaking, persists today, particularly in major cities. 0.54

00:16:55.900 police departments and DAs are no longer concerned with punishing criminals in order to protect the

00:17:00.800 public. As we just established, it doesn't matter how heinous the crime is. Left-wing judges are

00:17:07.360 still looking for ways to spring homicidal drivers out of prison, get them back on the road as soon 0.88

00:17:12.860 as possible. And to be clear, the case I mentioned in San Francisco is not a cherry-picked incident.

00:17:18.940 Things like this happen all the time. Earlier this month, there was a similar crash in Los

00:17:23.340 Angeles in which an elderly woman killed several people. It was all caught on camera. Watch.

00:17:29.300 Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh my God. You can see the car plow straight through the front window of the 99

00:17:37.960 Ranch Market here on Westwood Boulevard near Rochester. Minutes later, firefighters scrambled

00:17:43.180 to help people who were hurt. Some were trapped underneath the car. The bakery here had been

00:17:48.460 crowded this happened around 12 noon emergency crews were able to rescue some of the victims

00:17:53.660 for others it was too late three people two employees and one customer were killed we've

00:17:59.260 been talking to eyewitnesses here this morning some of them are suggesting that the elderly driver

00:18:04.060 may have confused the gas pedal for the break in fact one of them estimates the driver

00:18:08.940 was going at least 60 miles an hour when she crashed into the store

00:18:12.700 she had hit a lady on a bike down in the crosswalk over there and she must have you know went into 1.00

00:18:20.880 shock and just took off so she didn't slow down you didn't see her slow down she accelerated 0.94

00:18:25.940 she probably meant to push on the brake you know according to a local news station quote

00:18:31.200 los angeles fire officials said the three people killed two men ages 30 and 55 and a 42 year old

00:18:37.340 woman, died at the scene. Two men, both 35, were taken to the hospital in critical condition,

00:18:42.780 the AP reports, while two others, ages 37 and 38, were hospitalized in fair condition.

00:18:47.780 KTLA's Eric Spillman reported Friday morning that a fire department spokesperson told the

00:18:52.920 Associated Press the 92-year-old driver was cooperating with investigators, was not injured,

00:18:57.560 and would not face criminal charges.

00:19:02.200 Yes, you heard that correctly. After hitting a guy on a bicycle, slamming the accelerator,

00:19:06.020 and killing three people,

00:19:07.980 this driver will not face criminal charges.

00:19:11.940 That's despite the fact that,

00:19:13.660 simply by virtue of her age alone,

00:19:16.500 she should not have been anywhere near the driver's seat

00:19:18.740 of a motor vehicle.

00:19:20.220 She obviously wasn't capable of driving safely, 1.00

00:19:23.320 just like the Asian woman who killed that entire family. 1.00

00:19:26.420 And for making the extremely reckless decision 1.00

00:19:28.260 to drive anyway,

00:19:29.700 she will suffer no consequences at all.

00:19:33.140 The state of California has done everything in its power to make incidents like this more common.

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00:21:03.320 Two years ago, California eliminated the mandatory written knowledge test in order for drivers

00:21:08.800 age 70 and up to get their licenses removed.

00:21:12.200 They streamlined the process. 0.61

00:21:14.900 And many other states now have similar policies, which result in many more elderly people on

00:21:19.720 the roads.

00:21:20.120 The result, predictably, is that the roads have become more dangerous.

00:21:23.820 insurance rates have gone up for everybody. There are more dead bodies in the street.

00:21:30.520 And it's not just the elderly who are contributing to this trend, of course. Road rage incidents,

00:21:34.600 which mostly involve younger men, especially in urban areas, have been drastically increasing in

00:21:40.560 a relatively short period of time. The outlet, The Trace, reports that, quote, between 2014 and

00:21:45.140 2023, the number of people shot in road rage incidents surged more than 400 percent from 92

00:21:50.720 to 481 according to a trace analysis of data from the non-profit gun violence archive all told angry

00:21:57.580 drivers shot 3095 people over that decade or nearly one every day one in four of those people

00:22:04.760 were killed someone was shot in a road rage incident on average every 18 hours in 2023

00:22:10.940 up from once every four days in 2014 and again none of these fatalities would count as motor

00:22:18.940 vehicle deaths. They don't show up in the data that shows how much safer driving is today compared

00:22:24.220 to the 1980s, but it's a big problem. And it's getting much worse post-COVID. As this chart

00:22:30.400 illustrates, which you can see, this shows road rage shooting incidents. There's the 449% increase

00:22:37.160 from 2014 to 2023, which rapidly accelerated after 2020. And the data includes shootings like

00:22:44.720 the one that took place at 1 a.m. on December 10th, 2023 in Houston when a 17-year-old white

00:22:49.500 female driver named Louise Jean Wilson swerved to avoid an accident. In the process, she cut off

00:22:56.020 another driver who then opened fire and murdered her. Watch. Castro knew this afternoon developments 0.83

00:23:03.560 in a road rage shooting that took the life of a 17-year-old driver last month. Today, Houston

00:23:08.760 police released a new sketch of the suspected gunman during a news conference where the teen's

00:23:13.660 parents gave a tearful plea for answers. Our Michelle Choi is at Houston Crime Stoppers with

00:23:18.800 the very latest. Yeah, Houston Police Crime Stoppers and the parents of 17-year-old Louise

00:23:25.100 Wilson are hoping this new sketch and an increased reward up to $20,000 will lead them to her killer.

00:23:32.400 More than a month after Louise was gunned down in her vehicle, Houston Police say they still

00:23:36.200 haven't gotten any solid leads or tips. On Thursday, her parents once again pleaded for

00:23:40.800 answers to the people of Houston, please help get this animal off your streets and had this stern

00:23:46.880 message for their daughter's killer. You're a coward, but unlike how you have taken Louise's 0.97

00:23:51.580 life, we have taken yours. We have just given you up to 20,000 reasons to doubt and not trust 1.00

00:23:58.820 everyone in your world right now. HPD released this sketch of the alleged gunman who they

00:24:03.580 describe as a man in his mid-20s with short dreadlock style hair that has blonde dye in

00:24:08.200 places now that report is from more than two years ago and guess what the shooter still has

00:24:15.240 not been caught even though there are traffic cameras and ring cameras everywhere apparently

00:24:20.700 the city's cameras on the highway were only used for live viewing and none of the footage was saved

00:24:26.520 in response to the murder texas lawmakers decided to make it a first degree felony to draw a gun

00:24:32.380 during a road rage incident so you know that's something i guess it's not clear why it wasn't a

00:24:38.080 first-degree felony already. But again, this woman's killer is still out on the streets. 0.98

00:24:45.140 And indeed, many road rage incidents turn out like this. They aren't easy crimes to solve,

00:24:51.220 even when video footage exists. That's because since 2020, after the Biden administration opened

00:24:55.700 the border to the entire world, there are many, many more untraceable criminals who are living

00:25:01.340 in this country. It's hard to comprehend the scale of this transformation, so take a look at this

00:25:06.980 chart, it provides some very important context. It shows that under the Biden administration,

00:25:11.840 8% of the population of Nicaragua and 7% of the population of Cuba entered the United States in

00:25:19.580 just four years. The numbers are only slightly smaller for Haiti and Honduras. Yes, 8% of the

00:25:27.540 entire country of Nicaragua, 8% of their total population, just to be clear, entered the US

00:25:35.400 under Joe Biden. A similar percentage of Cubans and Haitians enter the United States as well.

00:25:40.660 These are staggering numbers. And these people bring with them, in many cases, third world 1.00

00:25:46.520 attitudes and impulse control issues. Many of them have fake IDs. They have no traceable next

00:25:53.820 of kin. They're not registering their vehicles with the DMV and paying for insurance like you

00:26:00.480 are. They aren't using valid license plates. So what happens when you cut them off in traffic

00:26:06.560 and they start blasting? Well, obviously it's very hard for police to identify them.

00:26:12.440 No one in their community is going to turn them in. They're not in any database.

00:26:17.020 The investigation stalls. That's not even getting into the topic of how many of these people have

00:26:21.860 commercial driver's licenses. They're driving big rigs and ramming them into innocent people

00:26:27.000 on the highway. We're not going to go into depth on that problem because we've done so

00:26:30.780 on that topic many times before, but it's becoming a bigger issue, especially because

00:26:36.380 many DMVs from New York to California are handing out driver's licenses to illegal aliens in

00:26:41.760 exchange for cash. So these illegals, in many cases, aren't even passing the tests

00:26:46.760 in any way, shape, or form. Here's the latest example. This is from Kentucky just last week.

00:26:53.780 People accused of running a driver's license scheme in Louisville are now facing federal charges.

00:26:58.540 Four of them appeared in court today.

00:27:00.040 Jamie Mays joins us live to tell us what happened in front of the judge.

00:27:03.320 Jamie?

00:27:05.380 Rick, Vicki, the defendants who appeared in court pleaded not guilty today.

00:27:10.600 The fifth suspect does not have any record of his arrest just yet,

00:27:15.220 but all are accused of working together, charging immigrants hundreds of dollars for illegal licenses.

00:27:21.620 A new indictment describes the elaborate scheme targeting people who didn't know how to get a driver's license in Kentucky.

00:27:29.500 The document says starting no later than November 1, 2023, Raul Tellez Ojeda, Lozaro Alejandro Castelo Rojas, and Robert Danger Correa

00:27:40.160 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 NIA Center.

00:27:50.860 Those applicants were allegedly told fees ranged from $200 to $1,500 and were made to believe the process was legal.

00:27:58.420 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 NIA Center.

00:28:07.140 Many of the applicants had difficulty speaking English.

00:28:10.560 As part of the scheme, Danita Wilson and Ariel Matthews, who worked as temp workers at the NIA Center,

00:28:15.980 are accused of manually changing the status of driver's license records

00:28:20.360 so the system would recognize licenses that did not exist.

00:28:24.780 So to recap, the names of the DMV workers who are allegedly involved in this scheme

00:28:30.560 are Raul Tellez Ojedo, Lazaro Alejandro Castillo, Rojas and Robert Danger Correa.

00:28:41.940 Notice any patterns there? 0.94

00:28:44.480 I mean, we're 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. 1.00

00:28:54.380 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. 1.00

00:29:06.820 We've covered many of these stories over the past year. 1.00

00:29:10.980 But admittedly, when it comes to explaining why driving is so terrible now, there are many more factors to consider.

00:29:16.780 Even when road rage and commercial trucking aren't directly involved, drivers have become a lot more unpredictable.

00:29:23.820 And that's showing up in the data, too.

00:29:25.140 According to researchers at Columbia University, quote, roadway mortality was declining in New York State before the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:29:32.060 Since the pandemic, mortality increased and did not return to pre-pandemic levels as the pandemic receded.

00:29:39.980 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.

00:29:47.000 And here's one reason for that, which you may have noticed in your neighborhood, quote,

00:29:51.900 access to shared motorized two-wheeled vehicles, such as e-bikes, is proliferating ahead of injury prevention strategies to address the mortality increase.

00:30:01.840 This is a major problem that's getting much worse with each passing year.

00:30:04.700 Children, often without helmets, are riding motorized scooters and e-bikes on the roads.

00:30:09.720 They're not obeying traffic laws. Many of them don't have a license.

00:30:14.720 And predictably, they're getting into accidents with vehicles. Watch.

00:30:19.280 In recent years, electric scooters and e-bikes have become more popular.

00:30:23.340 As more people ride them, Dr. Chelsea Kadish says more kids are getting hurt.

00:30:28.580 I would say over the last few years, it's been increasing exponentially.

00:30:33.400 Kadish is an emergency department doctor at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

00:30:36.700 She's urging parents to talk with their kids about wearing helmets.

00:30:40.420 Right now on the CBS 13 News at 530, frustrations and fulsome over kids riding e-bikes and e-scooters illegally.

00:30:47.460 Some drivers are now getting in near-miss accidents with children riding around.

00:30:51.920 Your reporter covering Sacramento County, Tori Abedaka, is joining us live,

00:30:54.860 getting answers on how the city is now responding to people's concerns here, Tori.

00:31:00.920 This area just off of Blue Ravine is really one of the prime spots

00:31:04.900 where we have seen dozens of kids riding around all afternoon.

00:31:09.420 Some drivers say that the way that these kids are riding those electric bikes and scooters

00:31:14.640 is becoming outright dangerous.

00:31:22.560 I'm very concerned for the children. I think it's very dangerous.

00:31:25.720 They ride in the street like motorcycles.

00:31:27.280 From kids doubling up on a single e-scooter through busy intersections

00:31:31.400 to others stopped at red lights without a helmet.

00:31:35.540 They could cause like a collision or issue with somebody on the road

00:31:37.920 if the person driving isn't paying attention.

00:31:40.440 School's out, and so are the surge of kids riding their e-bikes and e-scooters,

00:31:45.480 sometimes dangerously.

00:31:46.820 Last week of school, I saw third graders riding e-scooters to school.

00:31:50.720 Just last week, a 13-year-old in South Lake Tahoe

00:31:53.880 tragically died when she was hit by a car while riding her e-bike.

00:31:58.480 All of those factors combined, the number of illegal aliens on the road, the refusal 0.99

00:32:04.640 of left-wing judges and DAs to prosecute traffic offenders, the increased number of elderly

00:32:09.340 drivers who don't have to get tested before their licenses are renewed, the rise in e-bikes

00:32:15.240 and scooters that kids are driving around, put it all together and you get this statistic.

00:32:21.460 It's from Pew and it shows that as of 2024, 51% of American adults who drive at least

00:32:26.960 once per week think people are driving less safely in their neighborhoods as compared to

00:32:32.540 pre-COVID. By contrast, only 9% of American adults think drivers are now driving more safely.

00:32:40.820 The rest either aren't sure or don't think there's much of a change.

00:32:44.660 These numbers mostly hold up in every environment from urban to suburban to rural. The good news is

00:32:51.720 that based on the data, it's very obvious how we can fix this problem. Everything was going fine

00:32:57.320 right up until around 2020. That's when we let more elderly people on the roads. That's when 1.00

00:33:03.200 we let a vast number of new illegal aliens into the country. That's when we stopped enforcing 1.00

00:33:08.160 traffic laws. That's when kids didn't have access to these dumb scooters. If we simply 0.99

00:33:14.360 return to that status quo circa 2020, then, you know, things will be relatively fine.

00:33:22.480 But until that happens for your own sake and for your family's sake, you need to proceed

00:33:28.220 with extreme caution if you're anywhere near a major roadway. 1.00

00:33:31.940 One of the defining features of the third world is that the roads are unsafe and chaotic. 1.00

00:33:38.360 And as our country has imported more of the third world, the roads have reflected that. 1.00

00:33:44.360 so whenever you're sitting at a bus stop or driving on the highway, you need to act like 1.00

00:33:49.760 someone could kill you at any moment and get away with it with no consequences at all.

00:33:55.800 You should buy a car and pick your routes with that fact in mind, because that's the reality now.

00:34:01.100 There's no longer any incentive for other people to drive responsibly beyond their own morality.

00:34:08.280 And as these statistics very clearly show at this point, morality is in very short supply.

00:34:14.360 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

00:34:27.340 their statutes should not be in the Capitol.

00:34:31.320 History is written by the victors, and since the 1960s we've been told,

00:34:34.420 mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war,

00:34:38.180 the South committed treason.

00:34:40.400 But if the Confederates were traitors,

00:34:42.260 then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?

00:34:49.620 What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?

00:34:53.240 Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?

00:34:57.200 It's time for the truth.

00:34:58.760 So here it is.

00:34:59.680 Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.

00:35:03.180 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South for a century after the war.

00:35:07.960 This is the real history of the Civil War.

00:35:12.260 We'll be right back.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 13, 2026

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

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