GRANT TO HELP COMBAT DRUNK DRIVING, MORE.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - A $245,000 state grant will pay for education efforts and more sheriff's patrols and other enforcement efforts aimed at combating a big increase in drunk-driving crashes and auto-bicycle collisions. Local officials applied for the grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety after Lancaster collisions jumped 20 percent from 2001 to 2003, including a 66 percent increase in collisions between bicycles and autos and an 81 percent increase in crashes caused by drunk drivers. ``During the next two years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. and the Lancaster sheriff's station will use all available resources to ensure that our roadways are safe for the public,'' Lancaster sheriff's station Capt. Carl Deeley said in Tuesday's announcement of the grant. Valleywide, traffic fatalities so far this year have hit 80, up from 74 last year and approaching the record 87 set in 2003. Sheriff's deputies will visit elementary, middle and high school classrooms as well as conduct drunk-driving checkpoints and run extra patrols 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. drunk drivers, officials said. The grant will pay for overtime for the work, as well as buy a trailer In communications, a code or set of codes that make up the last part of a transmitted message. See trailer label. to use during checkpoints, and pay for bicycle safety Bicycle safety is the use of practices designed to reduce risk associated with cycling. Some of this subject matter is hotly debated: for example, the discussions as to whether bicycle helmets or cyclepaths really deliver improved safety. and anti-drunk driving pamphlets and other information to be handed out to students and residents beginning early next year. Sheriff's deputies will work with city staffers in producing the safety publications, Lt. Steve Fredericks said. Sheriff's deputies will also conduct undercover sting operations Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) aimed at deterring the purchase of alcohol by minors. Teenagers watched by deputies will be sent into local stores to try to buy alcohol, and also will approach people standing outside markets - the so-called ``shoulder tap'' sting - to ask them to buy alcohol. The program's goals include reducing Lancaster's annual traffic fatalities by 15 percent from the 14 killed last year, to reduce the number of bicyclists 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. by 15 percent from 38 last year, and to reduce drunk-driving collisions 10 percent from 76 last year. Another goal is to increase drunk-driving arrests on city streets by 15 percent, to 223. |
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