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Illegal Street Racing It is midnight at the local Wal-Mart, with the parking lot packed with all makes and models of import cars, ranging from Acura Integra’s to Honda Civics, paint jobs shining as bright as a new star in the evening light. The late evening air is heavy with the smell of high-octane exhaust. The atmosphere is a mixture of tension and excitement for the nights pending festivities. From somewhere in the crowd, …

…if there is traffic or not. All it takes is one driver getting distracted for just a fraction of a second to turn a night of harmless fun into a tragic end to a person’s life. Street racing is not a sport; it is a dangerous illegal activity. A ten-second adrenaline rush is not worth a hill of beans if the person does not make it home alive at the end of the night.