PALMDALE – Extra officers will be on duty in Palmdale this Monday issuing citations to drivers, bike riders and pedestrians who violate traffic laws, authorities announced.
The “Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operation” is part of an overall effort to lower deaths and injuries, according to a news release by the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.
The operation will be conducted from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, May 22, in Palmdale in areas where bike and pedestrian traffic collisions have occurred over the past three years, authorities said.
“Officers will be looking for violations made by drivers, bike riders and pedestrians alike that can lead to life changing injuries. Special attention will be directed toward drivers speeding, making illegal turns, failing to stop for signs and signals, failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks or any other dangerous violation,” the news release states.
“Additionally, enforcement will be taken for observed violations when pedestrians cross the street illegally or fail to yield to drivers who have the right of way… Pedestrians should cross the street only in marked crosswalks or at corners,” the news release states.
“Bike riders will be stopped and citations issued when they fail to follow the same traffic laws that apply to motorists. All riders are reminded to always wear a helmet – those under 18 years of age must wear helmets by law,” the news release states.
Funding for Palmdale Sheriff Station’s Bike and Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operation is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Laughing says
I see a lot of complaints about the Sheriff.
Has anyone put forth motions for the cities in the AV to bring back their own police forces. We used to have city police forces.
Twerp says
What they should have been doing all this time? What about ALL the calls for service LEOs respond to? All the victims that need reports taken?
Call it how you see it says
So basically its really an attempt to gain extra money by making the sheriffs department do what they should have been doing all this time. So lets call it what it really is. Operation “Make a deputy do his job today that they should have been doing all this time”.
Mike White says
Why not enforce the laws everyday?
Driving is hazardous in the AV because it’s basically a free-for-all for reckless drivers with no enforcement of traffic laws.
Pedestrians just wander out into 60 mph traffic and assume the cars will stop for them. Or maybe they’re trying to win the ghetto lottery by getting hit and getting an insurance settlement. That might work down below, but up here with the higher traffic speeds, they usually win a GoFundMe page for their funeral.
Gabor says
… ah! The local court bureaucracy greasing itself, lining its pockets, stuffing its coffers, making yet another grab, for the traffic ticket revenue –