Let's face it. Scraping all the snow off your car is a pain.

But it's an even bigger pain getting hit by snow flying off someone else's car when you're driving down the highway. It's also dangerous to have your vision suddenly obscured by the jerk who was too lazy to brush it off.

That's one of the reasons Delaware lawmakers are trying — again — to fine drivers who don't clean off their cars.

“The seconds you save by not clearing your vehicle can end up costing the people around you,” said Sen. Laura Sturgeon, D-Brandywine West, in a press release. “Brushing off your vehicle can prevent serious crashes, injury and property damage. It’s just the right thing to do.”

If the latest rendition of a proposed bill passes, drivers could be pulled over and fined up to $75 for leaving the driveway without scraping snow or ice off their windshields, roofs and hoods.

If someone gets hurt or their car gets damaged, drivers could pay as much as $1,000.

Those driving commercial vehicles like tractor-trailers would face even steeper fines: up to $1,500.

Drivers could not be penalized more than once in a 24-hour period and they would not lose points off their licenses, the bill says.

People have died after getting hit by unscraped snow and ice. In 2005, Pennsylvania lawmakers pushed to fine drivers after a chunk of ice from a truck crashed through a 51-year-old woman's windshield and killed her.

Several states now fine drivers for failing to clear off their vehicles, including Alaska, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

It's unclear just how many people are injured or killed because of unscraped vehicles.

From 2011 to 2015, an average of about 800 Americans died a year in car wrecks because of snow, freezing rain, sleet or ice, according to an analysis of transportation data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Auto Insurance Center.

The legislation has multiple sponsors and is backed by AAA Mid-Atlantic.

“Anyone who drives I-95 or Route 1 during snowy weather has probably had to dodge snow or ice flying off the vehicle in front of them,” said AAA spokesman Ken Grant in a statement. “Driving with accumulated snow or ice on top of a vehicle is a clear danger to other roadway users.”

Andru Duranso of Dover said that in 2017 he was driving on I-95 when his Ford Explorer was damaged by ice falling off trucks following a snowstorm.

“The police said I wasn’t the only one that this happened to today,” Duranso told The News Journal.

Former Sen. Greg Lavelle, R-Sharpley, has tried to pass similar legislation before, but it's never made it all the way through the General Assembly. The new bill, championed by Sturgeon, is nearly identical.

Sturgeon beat Lavelle for his seat in the most recent election.

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