Vista, California has joined a number of other North San Diego Cities that have rejected a "Crash Tax" this is a fee paid by the motorists who cause accidents that require an emergency response. Vista's City council was poised to enact the fee in July 2010, in an effort to bridge the $9 million budget gap. Instead it called a halt to work being done by city personal to determine the cost.
About 60 jurisdictions statewide have implemented the fee. Some have chosen to charge only out-of-town drivers. Vista, however would have targeted all drivers, regardless of where they live. In recent months a ground swell of opposition to the "Crash Tax" spearheaded by the automobile insurance industry which has argued that the fee would be passed along to consumers in the form of higher insurance rates.
The recent decision by the City of Vista, to halt further investigation to moving forward on this "Crash Tax", comes just a few weeks after the personnel at the city was give the green light to move ahead. For now the "Crash tax" is off the table.
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