Here's a class that every teen driver should take, and if they do, they may just save their life. The CHP is offering a two-hour class for teens 15 to 19 and their parents about the rights and wrongs of driving and how to avoid crashes and tickets. Thousands of [...]
Sonoma County's anti-DUI task force is launching its annual, winter holiday crackdown with a DUI checkpoint planned for this weekend. The Avoid the 13 task force also will send out teams of police officers on patrols specifically looking for DUI suspects, conducting probation and parole checks of those convicted of [...]
Cellphone use by drivers is the No. 1 safety problem on California's roads, a state survey finds. The survey won't come as a surprise to Road Warrior readers who regularly report dangerous driving by motorists on cellphones. And it comes as the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended that [...]
Santa Rosa police on Tuesday will pay extra attention to traffic violations by motorcyclists. Sgt. Lance Badger said extra officers will patrol the city's main streets in an effort to catch violators -- both motorcyclists and drivers of cars and trucks -- with the intent of reducing the number of [...]
With a $235,370 state grant in hand, Santa Rosa police are launching a year-long program of special traffic enforcement. Since the grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety was issued last month, officers participating in the program already have had three operations targeting speeders; intersection violations, such as right-of-way [...]
Sonoma County's anti-DUI campaign will continue after the state awarded a $300,000 grant for the Avoid the 13 task force. The task force, which includes all police agencies in the county and is coordinated by Petaluma police, had a three-year grant of $659,000 that ended Sept. 30. The money pays [...]
A Santa Rosa assemblyman is generating a lot of controversy over his bill that would set uniform rules for police statewide in operating DUI checkpoints and that would require police to publicize the specific location of a checkpoint at least two hours in advance. A story in Monday's Press Democrat [...]
Ken Savano doesn’t mind if you’re out on the town and have a drink or so. But just be sure you’re not driving afterward when you shouldn’t be because if you are, Savano is hoping you’ll wind up arrested and in jail. “Many people say, ‘I’m fine. I’m OK,’ but [...]
Santa Rosa police will be conducting a DUI/license checkpoint on Friday night. As is typical, police declined to say where the checkpoint will be, but it will go from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. "It is the Santa Rosa Police Department’s goal to continue providing public awareness on the dangers [...]
In one of several crackdowns on bicyclists who ride unsafe, Santa Rosa police ticketed 14 riders in the downtown area. Police Sgt. Lance Badger said five uniformed officers roamed the Courthouse and Railroad square areas early Monday evening and cited the bicyclists mostly for riding on the wrong side of [...]