Three Sonoma County police departments were honored recently by the state for their overall traffic safety programs and enforcement of traffic laws last year. Petaluma police received first place among those departments with 51 to 60 officers, Santa Rosa earned second place among the 165 to 250 officer group and [...]
Police across Sonoma County are stepping up their enforcement on drunken drivers this Memorial Day weekend. Tonight, the CHP will hold a DUI checkpoint, but the time and location of it hasn't been disclosed. Another DUI checkpoint will be held Saturday night by the Avoid the 13 Sonoma County DUI [...]
A Santa Rosa assemblyman is pushing a bill that would set rules for how police run DUI/license checkpoints, particularly targeting the impoundment of vehicles and being more specific about where the checkpoints will be. But the bill is generating some waves in the state’s law enforcement community. Assemblyman Michael Allen, [...]
Santa Rosa police will be holding a DUI/driver's license checkpoint tonight. "Our message is simple: If we catch you drunk, you will be arrested," Sgt. Rich Celli said in a statement. The checkpoint will be from 7 o'clock tonight until 1 a.m. Saturday, but police aren't saying where it'll be. [...]
Ride a motorcycle? Better be on your best behavior today. Santa Rosa police today are cracking down on traffic violations that could led to motorcycle collisions. Extra officers will patrol city streets frequently used by motorcyclists and where motorcycle crashes have occurred and will ticket motorcyclists and other drivers, Sgt. [...]
Sebastopol again ranks near the top in the state for fatal/injury collisions among cities of comparable size, according to the latest figures from the state Office of Traffic Safety. For 2009, Sebastopol ranked second out of 70 cities of 2,500 to 10,000 people with 67 fatal/injury collisions. Sonora, near Yosemite, [...]
Here's an opportunity for you to suggest places in Santa Rosa for police to target speeders, red-light runners and such. SRPD is conducting 97 traffic crackdowns over 12 months, starting from last October, and Police Sgt. Rich Celli said while officers already have specific intersections and roads in mind because [...]
What's the biggest safety problem on California's road? Speeding and aggressive driving, according to a survey of drivers by the state Office of Traffic Safety. What's the most serious distraction for drivers? Cell phone conversation, whether handheld or hands free, by far was No. 1 at 59.5 percent. Despite that [...]