CHP HAS EYE OUT FOR SPEEDERS GOAL IS REDUCED CRASHES.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - A roving special team of California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers has come to the 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 to help local officers combat a skyrocketing number of traffic crashes. The team, comprised of four motorcycle motorcycle, motor vehicle whose design is based on the bicycle. The German inventor Gottlieb Daimler is generally credited with building the first practical motorcycle in 1885. The motorcycle did not become dependable and popular, however, until after 1900. officers and two officers who target commercial vehicles, has been patrolling the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. since Monday, focusing their attention on speeders and reckless reckless adj. in both negligence and criminal cases, careless to the point of being heedless of the consequences ("grossly" negligent). Most commonly this refers to the traffic misdemeanor "reckless driving. drivers, officials said. ``If motorists are speeding and they haven't seen our team yet, they will,'' said Lancaster Station CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Captain Doug Rich. Crashes that injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. people on Antelope Valley highways and rural roads were up 47 percent from January through March compared with the same months last year, Rich said. Noninjury crashes are up 74 percent over the same period last year. Though crashes are up, deaths decreased dramatically. From January through March 2003, 10 crashes on highways and rural roads killed 15 people. This year in the same months, five crashes killed six people. ``You can look at that in a positive light, thinking that injury accidents are up and fatalities are down because people are using their seat belts,'' Rich said. ``There's still a high number of crashes but people aren't dying as often as a result.'' Rich said many Antelope Valley motorists are still driving too fast. One officer on the roving team told him of being passed on the Antelope Valley Freeway by a motorist doing 90 mph. After the officer caught up to the speeder, another motorist passed them both at more than 90 mph. ``Motorists do seem to be slowing down but we still have more work to do,'' Rich said. The CHP team, formed March 1, patrols areas all over the CHP's north region, which includes the Antelope Valley and Newhall. The additional officers are not pulled off their patrols to assist at crashes, officials said. That allows them to spend more time looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. speeders and reckless drivers. Because of 2003's record number of traffic fatalities - more than 80 people killed on highways, city streets and rural roads - CHP officers and deputies from the Palmdale and Lancaster sheriff's stations have begun working together in ``maximum enforcement'' teams to target problem areas. Greg Botonis, (661) 267-7802 gregory.botonis(at)dailynews.com |
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