STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs police have ticketed a second driver for “rolling coal” during Saturday’s March For Our Lives demonstration Saturday in front of the Routt County Courthouse.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in May signed the new “rolling coal” law, which “prohibits engaging in a nuisance exhibition of motor vehicle exhaust, which is the act of knowingly blowing black smoke through one or more exhaust pipes attached to a motor vehicle.”
Demonstrators were harassed by drivers in several vehicles during Saturday’s event. The protesters provided police with images of the vehicles involved.
Soon after the demonstration, a 20-year-old Routt County man was issued a $113.50 ticket for “rolling coal.”
Sgt. Evan Noble said he believed it was the first time a “rolling coal” ticket was issued in Steamboat.
“It never came up, but now I think every officer knows it’s part of the statute, and it’s something we can stop people for, and it’s something we can cite people for,” Noble said Tuesday.
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