23 DRIVERS CITED NEAR 15 SCHOOLS.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - Double- and triple-parking, speeding, illegal turns and ignoring crossing guards - who frequently narrowly miss being hit by erratic er·rat·ic adj. 1. Having no fixed or regular course; wandering. 2. Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity: an erratic heartbeat. 3. vehicles - are among the traffic problems around Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley schools. In two hours of stepped-up patrols around 15 schools during Wednesday morning's rainstorm, law enforcement officers cited 23 motorists for traffic violations, impounding im·pound tr.v. im·pound·ed, im·pound·ing, im·pounds 1. To confine in or as if in a pound: capture and impound stray dogs. 2. one car from an unlicensed driver. ``The rules really get thrown out of the window,'' said Lancaster traffic Deputy Dave Reddish, watching motorists outside a school. ``Parents dropping their kids off and teenage drivers, they make up their own lanes, they drive erratically, they have their kids cross traffic to get to class, they fail to stop for the crossing guards. And 90 percent of them say they're late for work or in a hurry. If they just left 10 minutes earlier they would miss most of this.'' One motorist was ticketed after he used the bicycle lane to pass stopped and slower-moving vehicles. Parents were ticketed for letting their children out curbside curb·side n. 1. The side of a pavement or street that is bordered by a curb. 2. A sidewalk. adj. Located, operating, or occurring at or along the sidewalk or curb: in no-stopping zones. Wednesday's effort involved more than a dozen deputies from the Lancaster and Palmdale sheriff's stations and officers from the Antelope Valley California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. office. They also ticketed offenders Wednesday afternoon, but those statistics were not immediately released. The effort was undertaken by a joint CHP-sheriff's task force set up in January after a high number of fatal crashes. The team branched out to deal with other traffic issues, including unsafe driving around schools. Greg Botonis, (661) 267-7802 gregory.botonis(at)dailynews.com |
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