KEEPING THE ROADS SAFE CHP PUTS HEAT ON ERRANT DRIVERS.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officials are promising to crack down on motorists who speed, drive while drunk or don't wear seat belts. In an effort called ``Summer of Heat,'' 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 officers in 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 and around California will aggressively look for those three traffic-law violations, which CHP Commissioner Mike Brown called the three main causes of deaths on California roads. ``We're focusing on that all summer long. We want to drive that home,'' said Antelope Valley CHP spokesman Officer Henry Ross Captain Henry Ross (1829 - 5 December, 1854) was a Canadian gold miner at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and was known on the goldfields as the 'bridegroom' of the miners flag, the Southern Cross, the Eureka Flag. . Last year, 4,200 people died on California roads, and CHP statistics show that July and August are traditionally the deadliest months, Brown said. ``These aren't due to traffic `accidents.' They are the result of poor driving decisions on the part of someone,'' Brown said. Focusing CHP officers' attention on these three areas helped drop California's death rate per 100 million miles driven by 48 percent between 1985 and 2005, Brown said. According to statistics from The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, part of the Department of Transportation. , 92.5 percent of Californians wear seat belts. But this past year, speeding citations increased by 10 percent, due in part to increased enforcement on certain targeted roadways where speed has proved to be a special problem. Drunk-driving deaths are going up. In 2002, 1,411 people were killed in DUI crashes on our state's roadways. In 2004, that number had risen to 1,462. The CHP wants the public to help curb drunk driving, with Caltrans signs on the highway and in rest stops saying ``Report Drunk Drivers - Call 9-1-1.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) CHP Officer Jason Wilber, left, and his partner, Officer Brian Orcutt, arrest a 23-year-old man on suspicion of drunk driving. (2) CHP Officer Andrew Johnson writes a speeding ticket Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Ohio I was traveling on a two lane street with an officer driving toward me in the opposite direction. for the driver of a Toyota Solara clocked at 90 mph on Sierra Highway at Avenue G. Two brothers died in a fiery crash at that intersection June 13 when their Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and hit a pickup truck. |
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