Blue Springs city leaders are set to consider a new ordinance Tuesday that would make stunt driving illegal within city limits and give police the authority to stop drivers who intentionally perform stunts behind the wheel. The proposed rules would cover drifting, burnouts, donuts, wheelies and drag racing, adding a local enforcement layer on top of a Missouri law that prohibits performing stunt driving in connection with a street takeover and participating in a street takeover.
The Blue Springs City Council will discuss the proposed ordinance Tuesday, according to KCTV5, as part of what the city describes as a broader push to make its highways, city streets and neighborhoods safer. The move follows Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signing a reckless-driving bill into law in August 2025, a measure that created a new stunt-driving and street-takeover offense.
Under that state law, Revised Statutes of Missouri Section 304.145, a first stunt-driving offense is a Class B misdemeanor, a second is a Class A misdemeanor, and a third or subsequent offense becomes a Class E felony, according to the Missouri Revised Statutes. The framework uses escalating classifications for repeat offenses, per KCTV5's report.
Vehicle Seizures Tied to Repeat Offenses
A companion statute, Missouri Revised Statutes Section 82.1000, concerns municipal vehicle forfeiture, though the scope of that authority is not specified here.
Neighboring Kansas City has already built out its own version of this enforcement model. Kansas City police can execute search warrants to impound vehicles for up to 30 days in street-racing cases, according to KCUR 89.3. Kansas City also allows officers to seize the vehicles of certain convicted offenders and to stop stunt driving directly. Its enforcement approach offers a comparison for Blue Springs.
A Waldo Mural Becomes a Local Cautionary Tale
The pressure on Blue Springs to act has a very local face attached to it. KCTV5 reported that a Blue Springs man was accused of destroying a street mural in Kansas City's Waldo neighborhood during a sideshow, according to KCTV5's Facebook coverage. The report did not identify the mural's cost or tie it to a larger infrastructure project.
Kansas City has also experimented with physical deterrents beyond legal penalties. Municipal officials installed round plastic discs, known as pucks, into pavement at wide downtown intersections to disrupt drifting and donuts, but police reported that stunt drivers often simply shifted to other locations, according to KCUR. Winter snowplows also damaged many of the initial pucks, prompting plans for larger street barriers.
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Missouri's 2025 public safety legislation also included other public-safety provisions.
The article also discusses tactical responses to high-speed fleeing and stunt-driving incidents. In St. Louis, Metropolitan Police used tire-deflation spike strips during a single June 2025 operation targeting street takeovers along Manchester Avenue, disabling between 40 and 50 participating vehicles, as Hoodline previously reported on spike strip tactics.
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Blue Springs' proposed ordinance is part of the broader discussion around traffic enforcement.
Governor Kehoe signed House Bill 495 into law in August 2025, setting up the framework Blue Springs is now moving to adopt locally.
Open questions remain around how Blue Springs would structure impoundment timelines and administrative search warrant procedures if its council approves the ordinance. Those details are expected to be part of Tuesday's discussion as council members weigh how closely to mirror Kansas City's model.
