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Violators of moving traffic laws will be $10 poorer and the State Emergency Medical Services Council will be richer if the legislation proposed by the EMS Council is passed by the General Assembly in its 1983 session.
"Ten for Life” is the name of the proposal supported by the Council. It would add $10 to the fines levied for moving traffic violations, to be used for the support of the Virginia EMS system.
The proposal comes at a time of cutbacks in federal funding for state emergency councils and places some of the responsibility for the suffering caused by trafficrelated injuries where many rescue workers feel it belongs with those convicted of such violations as speeding, reckless driving, and driving while intoxicated.
Virginia State Police records for 1980 show that over 90 percent of crashes involved traffic violations while drinking drivers accounted for 23 percent of fatal crashes.
Paul Poling, president of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Emergency Medical Services Council, said that as presently proposed, the money generated by the “Ten for Life” program would be equally distributed to the sixteen Emergency Medical
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