LANCASTER – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting a specialized Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation on Monday, May 4, in Lancaster in an effort to lower deaths and injuries.
Extra officers will be on duty patrolling areas frequented by motorcyclists and where motorcycle crashes occur.
Officers will be looking for violations made by drivers and riders alike that can lead to motorcycle crashes.
They will be cracking down on both those operating regular vehicles and motorcycles who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, speeding, making illegal turns, or any other dangerous violation.
Motorcycle fatalities saw a phenomenal drop of 37 percent from 2008 to 2010, but then rose 23 percent by 2012. Operations like this are aimed at curbing any more rises in motorcycle deaths and sending the numbers back downward.
Over the course of the past three years, motorcycle involved collisions have resulted in 850 fatal and injury crashes.
California collision data reveals that primary causes of motorcycle-involved crashes include speeding, unsafe turning and impairment due to alcohol and other drugs by both riders and drivers alike.
Riders are urged to get training through the California Motorcyclist Safety Program. Information and training locations are available at www.CA-msp.org or 1-877 RIDE 411 (1-877-743-3411).
Funding for the specialized Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation is provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The message to all drivers and motorcyclists is: “Share in the responsibility and do your part by safely sharing the road.”
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[Information via news release from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.]
Pig says
Be sure and sound check the illegal Harley bikes
desertsky says
Let ME get this straight, they’re devoting an entire MONDAY to this effort. Wow – that’s impressive. How bout shelling out a little O.T. and do this on a Sunday when the number of riders probably doubles in the area?
WTF?
AVSux says
So let me get this straight. If you have any drugs or alcohol in your system you’ll get a DUI even though you are riding a motorcycle, which means you’re perfectly coherent, because, well, you are riding a motorcycle and isn’t that proof enough that you are OK? And, if you weren’t OK to ride the motorcycle, the only person who will be injured is the guy on the motorcycle because it’s always the motorcyclist that gets killed. Saving people from themselves now-ain’t America great?
Greg says
Tell that to my uncle. He was a CHP motor officer and woke up once to find himself trying to motor up the side embankment on a freeway and had been spinning his wheel for a few moments in place.
Impaired operation of a motorcycle is possible.
Greg says
I forgot to mention, when a motorcycle rider wipes out they can kill the driver of a car, cause great bodily harm to other passengers/drivers/pedestrians, not to mention property damage.
AVSUX says
Yes, I know this COULD happen and that MIGHT happen in the paranoid imaginations of paranoid people. And, the toothefairy might exist and Santa Claus too, but in the real world it’s virtually always the motorcyclist that gets killed and there isn’t any reason for these scams other than to rake in revenue for the Antelope Valley.
Just Saying says
“Funding for the specialized Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation is provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.”
This is a state mandated program, that must be enforced or state highway funds may be withheld. The court you will be directed to says “L.A. County Courthouse” not “Antelope Valley Courthouse”.
A simple course on Civics might help with your own paranoid imagination.
Justsayyestodrugs says
Perhaps you need a course in common sense if you don’t think all this policing doesn’t have a profit motive and it doesn’t trickle to the Antelope Valley.
4:13 says
In May of last year, a six year old passenger in a car was killed at Avenue K and 15th St East when the car was broadsided by a motorcycle. Maybe you can describe the “paranoia” you speak of to the family of that child.
VXSGuy says
This is a good cause but they should also target inattentive drivers that generally lead-up to accidents.