Phoenix parents fight for passage of Joe's Law to test drivers for drugs, alcohol
Steve and Tana Smith have agonized over their son’s death for seven months. They want one question answered, but it’s an answer that will never come.
The Phoenix couple wants to know if the semi-truck driver involved in the crash that killed their son, Joseph Thomas Smith, was intoxicated. The law currently says that officers, at their discretion, may ask drivers responsible for an accident resulting in a death or serious injury to submit to tests. Senate Bill 1054, or “Joe’s Law,” would mandate that officers ask.
About 100 of Smith’s friends and family recently marched outside the state Capitol to support the bill. Tana Smith gathered about 4,000 petition signatures, both on paper and online, to support it.
“We would not have made it to this point, in the seven months, without their support – their love. … That means more to us than anything,” Tana Smith said.
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