A Press Democrat Blog

Road Warrior

Trying to make sense out of getting around

SW Santa Rosa intersection under police watch

Sunday, at 8:57 by

Santa Rosa motorcycle police officers this coming week will monitor one of the city’s most dangerous intersections — Dutton Avenue at Sebastopol Road, which last year was tied for second with 13 collisions. As part of a weekly, Monday through Sunday, special enforcement program, Officer Jeff Adams says officers particularly will be looking for drivers not wearing seat belts, who are illegally using cellphones, are speeding, running red lights or committing lane violations. Each week, the officers pick one of… Read More »

SW Santa Rosa intersection targeted by traffic officers

Friday, at 8:06 by

Santa Rosa motorcycle police officers this coming week will monitor one of the city’s second most dangerous intersection — Dutton Avenue at Sebastopol Road, which last year was tied with 13 collisions. As part of a weekly, Monday through Sunday, special enforcement program, officers particularly will be looking for drivers not wearing seat belts, who are illegally using cellphones, are speeding, running red lights or committing lane violations. To read about the city’s other top intersections for collisions, CLICK HERE.… Read More »

Santa Rosa’s 25 most dangerous intersections

Monday, at 9:00 by

Here are Santa Rosa’s most dangerous intersections, based on the number of collisions at each in 2011 as reported by the Santa Rosa Police Department. Each week during the year, Santa Rosa motorcycle officers typically spend part of their day at one of these intersections, looking for traffic violators, with the idea of trying to make them safer. No. 1 Highway 12 at Mission Boulevard, with 18 collisions in 2011. In 2010, this intersection ranked second with 17 collisions. To… Read More »

SRPD targets city’s 3rd most dangerous intersection

Sunday, at 5:10 by

Santa Rosa police officers this week will monitor the city’s third most dangerous intersection — Dutton Avenue at Sebastopol Road, which last year had 15 traffic collisions. As part of a weekly special enforcement program, officers particularly will be looking for drivers not wearing seat belts, who are illegally using cell phones, are speeding, running red lights or committing lane violations. To read about the city’s other top intersections for collisions, CLICK HERE. To read about how the officers look for… Read More »

SRPD monitoring 3rd most dangerous intersection

Saturday, at 11:11 by

Santa Rosa police officers this week will monitor the city’s third most dangerous intersection — Dutton Avenue at Sebastopol Road, which last year had 15 traffic collisions. As part of a weekly special enforcement program, officers particularly will be looking for drivers not wearing seat belts, who are illegally using cell phones, are speeding, running red lights or committing lane violations. To read about the city’s other top intersections for collisions, CLICK HERE. To read about how the officers look… Read More »

Santa Rosa intersections with most collisions

Tuesday, at 6:08 by

Here are 24 intersections in Santa Rosa where you want to be particularly careful because, for one reason or the other, they had the most collisions last year: No. 1: Sebastopol Road at Stony Point Road, with 20 collisions in 2010 compared to 19 in 2009. It ranked No. 1 for the second straight year. To read more about this intersection, CLICK HERE. No. 2: Highway 12 at Mission Boulevard, with 17 collisions vs. 16 last year, and again was… Read More »

Roseland intersection targeted for traffic violators

Saturday, at 9:08 by

Santa Rosa motorcycle police officers will be keeping an eye out Monday through next Sunday for traffic violators at Dutton Avenue at Sebastopol Road in the city’s Roseland neighborhood. Officer Jeff Adams said in a news release that officers particularly will be looking for drivers who run the red lights there, are not wearing seat belts, are illegally using cell phones, are speeding and are committing lane violations.