Vehicles with multiple tickets for excessive speeding and red-light running could be impounded or booted under a new bill from At-large D.C. Councilmember Elissa Silverman. If passed, owners would only get their vehicle back by taking a reckless driving course and paying the associated fee.

The bill targets vehicles that have racked up three or more tickets for speeding more than 25 mph over the limit, or five or more tickets for running a red light in a 365-day period. Those tickets could come from either a speed or red light camera or issued in person by police.

The proposed law would apply to all vehicles in the District, even if they aren’t registered in D.C. The vehicle owner would be responsible for taking the class within 90 days of the last violation. It won’t matter whether or not they were the person driving when the camera caught the vehicle.

Silverman says the “Reckless Driver Accountability Act” advances the District’s Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024. D.C. has had an average of 35 traffic deaths over the past five years and has risen each year since Vision Zero has been adopted.

“The legislation targets the region’s most reckless drivers and puts them in a restorative justice education program modeled on one in New York that has reduced dangerous driving incidents among participants by up to 40 percent,” Silverman’s staff brief on the bill says. “The course would feature small group sessions, with an emphasis on reducing harmful driving behavior by helping drivers understand the impact of their actions.”

Speeding is one of the major factors in traffic fatalities; the higher the speed during crash impact, the higher the fatality rate.

Silverman notes that several egregious repeat offenders have racked up tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of speeding tickets.

“They are a very real threat to not only pedestrians and cyclists but other drivers on the road,” Silverman said. “We need to get them to slow down, and this program has done just that in New York.”

Councilmembers David Grosso (I-At Large), Anita Bonds (D-At Large), Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4) and Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) co-signed the bill. It was referred to the Committee on Transportation and the Environment.

This story originally appeared on WAMU.