Road takeovers have gotten a dangerous nuisance in cities throughout the nation. And whereas some have tried their hand at doing what they can to curb takeover actions, they usually don’t work. However as CBS News experiences, one California metropolis is taking efforts to cease them to a complete new degree.

The Southern California metropolis of Pico Rivera handed a brand new ordinance that’s in all probability the hardest crackdown on road takeovers but. Any fool discovered doing donuts or blocking any a part of the road may have their car completely seized. Drivers and people in attendance may even be topic to a $2,000 wonderful, every.

Town isn’t stopping there both. Metropolis Councilman Gustavo Camacho says officers are ready on phrase from California’s State Capitol on steerage for enacting extra guidelines. “We’ve been really ready on Sacramento to enact extra guidelines that provides us extra instruments,” mentioned Camacho. “They’ve been sluggish within the course of so many cities are simply taking their very own method,” he said.

Camacho says he hopes Pico Rivera’s ordinance will likely be a mannequin for different cities who haven’t been as profitable at combating these takeovers. The close by metropolis of Compton for example tried installing road dots in metropolis interactions to maintain automobiles from doing donuts or burnouts. It really failed.