44° CLEAR, SONOMA COUNTY
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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