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Originally Posted by SPF2245
From the enforcement side, I support the original post 100%. I've had my patrol unit rear ended twice (the last time totalled the car) in ten years. Luckly I wasn't in the car in either event.
In 2009, 6 officers lost their lives by being struck by cars (accidental)...god only knows how many others were injured. The reason we do the "traps" for this law is because when we're working an incident, we can't break away from the scene to give an idiot a ticket. The "traps" let people know the law exsists and it's enforced, so when we are working on the side of the road, people yield.
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I agree with you entirely. Even up here in our light traffic compared to the Bay Area and other cities, we have had two CHP vehicles and three city police cruisers hit and badly damaged with two of the LEOs suffering minor injuries. The last one was by a woman driving a SUV and trying to call her friend on a cell phone to tell her about the accident she was going by. She was doing about 65 MPH according to witnesses, hit the patrol car which was well off the road, went across the divider and hit another car and truck. One person in the North bound lane was killed by her stupidity and all she would say was she had a right to use her cell phone any time she wanted. Didn't seem to give a darn about the person she had killed.
Ron
