It's been 5 years since mandatory vehicle safety inspections hit the rearview mirror. Does that mean Utah roads are more dangerous? KSL Investigator Matt Gephardt digs into the crash data.
. Bill sponsor Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, at the time a state representative, reasoned then that safety inspection requirements simply led to delayed needed repairs until the annual check.According to data from the Utah Department of Public Safety, more than 1.8 million inspections were performed in 2017, the last year of the mandatory program.Making sure vehicles on the road are mechanically sound now falls increasingly into the lap of the Utah Highway Patrol.
"2019 saw a significant increase in equipment enforcement contacts," Spillman explained. "This was shortly after the law change, and we believe was primarily the result of a significant emphasis on equipment enforcement by UHP leadership."Spillman cited "challenges … including both the COVID pandemic and civil unrest unlike we had ever before seen in Utah" in 2020 for a drastic reduction in tickets given.
It's significantly higher than faulty brakes, which was the second-leading cause of these types of crashes last year, with 131 accidents. Last year, 1,223 crashes happened on Utah roads where equipment was named as a contributing factor. That's compared to 1,237 such crashes in 2017 when safety inspections were still mandatory.
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