Contact: Sgt. Kollin Cieadlo – 626-574-5475
Traffic Enforcement Operations
Plan for Arcadia
The Arcadia
Police Department will step up Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement
Operations on Thursday, February 4, 2016 with focused enforcement on collision causing
factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.
The
department has mapped out locations over the past 3 years where pedestrian and
bike collisions have occurred along, with
the violations that led to those crashes. Extra officers will be on duty
patrolling areas where bike and pedestrian traffic and crashes occur in an
effort to lower deaths and injuries.
Officers
will be looking for violations made by drivers, bike riders and pedestrians alike that can leadto life changing injuries. Special attention will be directed toward drivers speeding, making illegal turns, failing to stop for signs and signals, failing to yield to pedestrians in cross walks or any other dangerous violation.
Additionally,
enforcement will be taken for observed violations when pedestrians cross the
street illegally or fail to yield to drivers who have the right of way.
Bike riders will be stopped and citations issued when they fail to follow the same traffic laws that apply to
motorists. All riders are reminded to
always wear a helmet – those under 18 years of age must wear helmets by law. Pedestrians should cross the street only in
marked crosswalks or at corners.
In 2013,
California witnessed 701 pedestrians and 141 bicyclists killed, accounting for
more than 28 percent of all traffic fatalities.
Funding for this program is
provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Robert T. Guthrie
Chief of Police
By: Kollin Cieadlo
Traffic
Sergeant
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