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114 drivers ticketed for speeding
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 4:47 a.m.
An enforcement effort by Sonoma County CHP officers netted 114 ticketed speeding drivers, the CHP reported Tuesday.
More than a dozen officers worked four hours Sunday on Highway 101 in two locations, looking for the fastest drivers on the highway, Sgt. Robert Mota said.
In the first two hours, between 7 and 9 a.m., they gave 89 speeding tickets to drivers caught between Todd Road and Rohnert Park Expressway.
Later Sunday, officers wrote 25 more tickets. Those drivers were stopped along the highway near the Highway 12 interchange in Santa Rosa.
Five unlicensed drivers also lost their cars, which were impounded by officers.
One driver was clocked at 96 mph. Most of the drivers stopped were going at least 80 mph, Mota said.
The legal speed limit on the highway is 65 mph.
-- Randi Rossmann
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September 3, 2008 7:34:07 am
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Great Job CHP!
This high profile effort might wake a few people up.
For those who believe this effort was all about generating revenue. DING DING. I'm sure it factored in to it. If you figure a dozen officers at roughly $40 pr hr regular pay and add overtime expense, perhaps the payroll was between 6+10 thousand. 114 tickets at app. $200 average =app. $23,000. Almost like hitting the lottery.
September 3, 2008 8:04:38 am
I could care less about ticketing speeders, These people are doing something called "DRIVING" I dont know what the rest of the lame asses on the road are doing. Ticket people that are going too slow, Don't know how to Merge, Are talking on Cell phone, Etc. Etc. Appraise people that can actually go over 65mph, I cant I always have some slow ass in front of me.
September 3, 2008 8:27:42 am
What is such an emergency that you will waste gas and risk damage to yourself and others as you hurl yourself through space at unnatural speeds?? I wonder why you can't drive the speed limit and get to your destination at the same time as others? Interesting that you believe the roads are all about you.
September 3, 2008 8:44:48 am
Berrodel, Im just asking people do the actual speed posted, I dont know what planet your from but I'm not driving a spaceship that goes unnatural speeds, I'm wasting my time because you are obviosly one of those drivers that is oblivious to what is going on around them and in your own little world, and by that you think the roads are all about you, and you dont have to pay attention to the speed limit as long as your going 20mph below it.
September 3, 2008 12:57:19 pm
Nice work & congrats to the CHP.The immature drivers on the road who put us all at risk because they're such babies that they can't drive safely need to be ticketed and ticketed again until they learn whet their parents never taught them... to respect other people's safety around them.
And notice FIVE cars were impounded... a great improvement in safety for the general public when the troublemakers and crybabies who can't drive safely lose their cars.
Again, THANK YOU to the CHP.
September 3, 2008 1:11:11 pm
Actually, linden has a valid point.
For every 114 speeders, there are 114 people obstructing traffic, which I consider to be the most aggressive form of driving, because they won't allow someone to do the posted speed limit. The law requires you to pull over if traffic backs up behind you.
Everyday I drive home on Petaluma Hill Road at commute time. The speed limit is 55 mph from the rock quarry in Santa Rosa to the Rohnert Park Expressway. Yet, virtually everyday someone is doing 45 mph from the quarry to Crane Canyon Road or beyond, with five or more cars behind them. This is called obstructing traffic, and it is against the law. If you can not do the posted speed limit, pull over, it is that simple. People who obstruct traffic cause more problems then people who go five to seven miles over the speed limit. They make the road unsafe.
They need to be ticketed on a regular basis, and often, like speeders. Keep the traffic flowing at the limit.
September 3, 2008 1:16:34 pm
Hey Linden! RIGHT ON! and now I have to jump in here...from the stand point of traffic engineering! Berrodel, you've just got to be that guy we all hate: a Left-Lane-Louie who is doing the speed limit and "everyone can just go around me".
So as the berrodels are occupying their "safe" space and the rest of the more cognizant / capable drivers [Linden] are forced to dumb down and pile behind you [one car length for every 10 miles per hour] - you think we're all getting "there at the same time". Have you ever noticed that black and white sign that says; "SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT"? The other drivers have to pass to the right side of you and risk the ingress / egress of other motorists. If the general public would adopt the simple courtesy of moving to the right when someone "hurls themself at unnatural speed" (what ? 70mph - which must have sounded even more crazy in the 1800s) - we wouldn't even need three lanes on half that stretch!
September 3, 2008 1:28:07 pm
uh excuse me bobsphotography. I concure: the CHP is to be commended. They are doing a great job having to deal with the problems on our highways. I personally know a few that admit they too speed (on duty and off).
But to set the record straight - Five cars were impounded NOT because the violation of speeding indicated they were "troublemakers and crybabies". Speed was the impetus for the stop, BUT the FACT THEY HAD NO DRIVERS LICENSE gave grounds for impound. That is the real problem the CHP faces everyday. People who are there on the road without so much as a standardized minimal level of training.
September 3, 2008 3:04:50 pm
I don't know about any of you, but to me the term Speed "Limit" means that the posted speed is the "limit" of how fast you can go. That's what I was taught when I got my license. I also agree that too slow can be as dangerous as too fast because too many speed! For those of you who seem to want to jeopardize everyone else with your speeding, quit (1) being so self-centered and (2) breaking the law while doing it. GOOD JOB CHP!!! KEEP IT UP!!!
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