HIGHWAY 138 PATROL TAKES LOW PROFILE.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LITTLEROCK - California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers are patrolling Highway 138 in two ``slicktop'' cruisers - lacking rooftop light bars - to make it easier to sneak up Verb 1. sneak up - advance stealthily or unnoticed; "Age creeps up on you" creep up advance, march on, move on, progress, pass on, go on - move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on" on traffic violators. The cars are working as part of the Highway 138 Safety Corridor Program, begun in 1998 in an effort to curb fatal crashes caused by motorists passing over the double-yellow lines A double-yellow line is a common road marking meaning different things in many parts of the world. UK Double yellow lines occur only on the side of carriageways and indicate 'no parking at any time'. and speeding. ``We're more apt to catch a bad passer or a speeder when they can't see us,'' said 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 Officer Scott Weldy. The safety corridor program provided funding for CHP overtime and additional cars to patrol the highway stretches with the highest incidence of violations. The two slicktops were requested earlier this year and arrived last month. Slicktops were the only types of cruisers used by the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Division of the CHP in the early 1970s. Cars with light bars were added later in the decade to increase visibility, and became standard in the early 1980s. CHP officials said they don't have any figures comparing the number of tickets issued by officers using regular patrol cars and slicktops. But since 1998, more than 10,500 tickets have been issued to motorists on Highway 138 in 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. County. In the San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. County section, only about 5,000 tickets have been issued in the same time. The number of tickets is more dependent on the concentration of officers than on the cars they are driving, officials said. Highway 138 typically experiences three to four fatal incidents a year, CHP officials said. So far this year, two people have already died; though both were pedestrians, and the deaths were not the result of unsafe driving, officials said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The CHP's new ``slicktop'' patrol cars don't have the telltale rooftop lights that tell speeders an officer is on to them. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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