LASER GUN TO TARGET CARS; DEPUTIES GET LEG UP ON SPEEDERS DLIM.Byline: Romy Jacobson Daily News Staff Writer Speeders beware: Lancaster sheriff's deputies have a new weapon to catch you. A state-of-the-art laser gun better than conventional traffic radar versions at pinpointing individual vehicles has been put into service to combat speeding, which officials blamed for one-third of the 1,923 crashes last year in Lancaster. ``It's another piece of equipment that will help keep our city safe and keep our people out of the hospital,'' said Lancaster Vice Mayor Henry Hearns, who with Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. on behalf of the city. The new device primarily will be used on crowded streets, while the conventional radar guns that local deputies have used for years will still be on duty on less busy desert roads. City officials said they hope to supply deputies with more laser guns in the future. A conventional traffic radar is mounted on a patrol car and emits a beam of radio waves Radio waves Electromagnetic energy of the frequency range corresponding to that used in radio communications, usually 10,000 cycles per second to 300 billion cycles per second. that has widened to 200 feet wide by the time it is 1,000 feet from the car. The beam's width makes it difficult to target a specific vehicle on a busy street, deputies said. The new laser gun, aimed like a handgun, sends out a beam of invisible infrared light Noun 1. infrared light - electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light but shorter than radio waves infrared emission, infrared radiation, infrared that is only two feet wide at 1,000 feet. ``It's real target specific,'' said Lt. Terry Lewis. ``It's easy to handle because it's hand-held.'' ``We used to see cars speeding but the radar beams scattered so much we couldn't get a reading,'' said Deputy Mark Johnston
Mark Johnston (born October 10, 1959) is a racehorse trainer based in Middleham, North Yorkshire, England. In 2004 he won the One Thousand Guineas with Attraction. , traffic team leader for the city. ``There's a lot less that are going to be missed.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) (Color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV Edition only) Deputy Mark Johnston uses a new laser gun during a press conference to track the speed of a vehicle Monday in Lancaster. (2--Color) (Ran in AV Edition only) The new traffic tool paid for by the 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. is better suited for use on busy streets. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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