CROSSWALK SETS SCENE FOR A STING MOTORISTS TARGETED IN WAKE OF RECENT PEDESTRIAN INJURIES.Byline: Harrison Sheppard Staff Writer SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - Faced with a recent rash of serious pedestrian A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a road or footpath, but this was not the case historically. History Walking is the primary means of human locomotion. injuries, San Fernando police cited 69 drivers Thursday for failing to stop at crosswalks. The four-hour sting was designed to educate drivers about a problem that police said has worsened, with three serious pedestrian incidents within just eight days last month. ``The idea is to get people to stop running over pedestrians,'' said Sgt. Mike Harvey. ``We're just lucky we haven't gotten people killed. Old folks, kids - it's pretty bad.'' The sting involved two police Explorer Scouts
Explorer Scouts (shortened to Explorers), a section of the Scout Association in the United Kingdom for 14 to 18 year olds, was introduced in 2003 , 19 and 20, who attempted to cross the intersection of Hubbard Avenue and Second Street while five officers waited nearby to catch drivers who didn't stop for them. The fine for failure to stop at a crosswalk is $139, or higher if a second offense. In 1999, 21 pedestrians were hit by cars in San Fernando, compared to 20 in 1998. But between Jan. 20 and Jan. 28, there were three serious incidents, including two on Jan. 28 only blocks away from each other, Harvey said. A Jan. 20 incident involved a 13-year-old crossing South Brand Boulevard in a crosswalk. One car stopped for him, but another behind it pulled around to the right and tried to pass the stopped vehicle, striking and seriously injuring the youth, who had to be airlifted to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Harvey said. On Jan. 28, two people were 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. in separate incidents while crossing Fourth Street less than six hours apart. One was a 44-year-old woman who suffered cuts, and the other was a 9-year-boy who suffered a broken jaw and had to be airlifted to Childrens Hospital. Thursday's sting was the first in a series of six crosswalk and 12 speeding stings to be carried out in the next month. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Explorer Scouts Denisse Funes, left, and Oscar Zelaya enter a Hubbard Street Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway enters a tunnel made up of surface streets known as colloquially as "Hubbard's Cave. crosswalk at the corner of Second Street in San Fernando, as a motorist fails to yield them the right-of-way. (2) Oscar Zelaya takes part in a sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) in San Fernando, where three people were hurt last month attempting to cross streets. (3) Officer Raul Villagrana tickets a driver who did not yield the right-of-way. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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