HB 2193 - DIGEST

Provides that any person who drives a vehicle in a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of, and injures, a person employed by the department of transportation who is engaged in highway construction or maintenance along a roadway right-of-way (fence line to fence line, landscaped areas) or in the loading and unloading of passenger vehicles in service of the vessel as a maritime employee not covered under chapter 51.32 RCW or engaged in those work activities as a Washington state ferries terminal employee covered under chapter 51.32 RCW, at the time of the incident is guilty of reckless driving that injures a transportation worker. Violation of this act is a class C felony punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW.

Provides that the license or permit to drive or any nonresident privilege of any person convicted of reckless driving that injures a transportation worker shall be suspended by the department for not less than ninety days.