ROAD-CLOSED WARNINGS GET NO RESPECT FROM MANY.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer What part of the word ``barricade'' don't they get? From this week's deadly mudslide at the oceanfront town of La Conchita to the flooded desert roads of 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 , police say motorists don't think those road-closed signs apply to them. ``Drivers are blowing through existing closure,'' one Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officer notes, assigning an officer to man a closure on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. near Castaic. ``Citizen removed barricade'' on the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. near La Conchita, another officer dispatches, seeking help near the scene where 10 people were killed in houses buried by the landslide. Stretched to their limits by this week's deluge and resulting emergencies, 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 couldn't catch up with these scofflaws. Now that things are calmer - though some local roads won't be reopened for weeks - they've been told to start writing tickets, said CHP Officer Wendy Hahn. In the Antelope Valley, a 2-year-old girl died early this week when her mother drove around a barricade and found herself in a torrent of water. Sheriff's homicide detectives are investigating and will turn over their findings to prosecutors to determine whether charges will be filed. In Newhall, a Chevy Suburban and four pickup trucks were driven past a barricade on The Old Road and their occupants found themselves trapped in knee-high mud. One man got out of his car and took a few steps, but his shoes were sucked off by the muck and there he was, stuck, shoeless and chagrined, Hahn said. Hahn said she was videotaping road damage at a closure on Vasquez Canyon Road and Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling - standing in full uniform by her squad car - and motorists streamed passed the barricade. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why they do it,'' she said. Patricia Farrell Aidem, (661) 257-5251 pat.aidem(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Signs warning motorists of road closures, such as this one at The Old Road, north of Hillcrest Parkway, don't always stop drivers from trying to get through, say authorities. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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