The Costa Mesa Police Department conducts a specialized “Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation”
today that will have extra officers patrolling areas
frequented by motorcyclists and motorcycle crashes.
They'll be on the lookout for riders (and drivers for that matter) who are under the
influence of drugs or alcohol. But they'll also be specifically cracking down on traffic violations
made by motorcyclists (and car and truck drivers, naturally).
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The Costa Mesa Police Department conducts a specialized “Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation”
today that will have extra officers patrolling areas
frequented by motorcyclists and motorcycle crashes.
They'll be on the lookout for riders (and drivers for that matter) who are under the
influence of drugs or alcohol. But they'll also be specifically cracking down on traffic violations
made by motorcyclists (and car and truck drivers, naturally).
Motorcycle deaths are down in California from previous years, but injury-accidents involving them increased last year in Costa Mesa from the previous year.
Meanwhile, the city released these results from an Aug. 31 DUI checkpoint on 19th Street and Pomona Avenue:
719 Vehicles went through the
checkpoint
672 Drivers were screened
2 Drivers were given Field Sobriety
Tests
1 Driver was arrested for DUI
45 Drivers license investigations
22 Citations issued
14 Vehicles towed
Of the motorcyclists who rode through
the checkpoint, 1 in 4 was improperly licensed, according to CMPD, which directs new riders to California Motorcyclist Safety Program training
locations at www.CA-msp.org
or 1-877-743-3411.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.