LWR Mainland - Police agencies wage battle against speeders

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Police agencies wage battle against speeders today
Aug, 23 2006 - 1:40 AM

LOWER MAINLAND/CKNW(AM980) - Chill, relax, and focus behind the wheel today or face fines.

ICBC, police and Speed Watch groups will be out Wednesday from 11 till 1 at high-traffic corridors on the Lower Mainland. They'll try to get drivers to slow down at first when they pass posted speed-reader boards. If drivers continue to speed past the police checkpoint, they'll be slapped with a ticket.

ICBC says the initiative is meant to save lives and keep insurance rates low and stable.

The speed watches will be set up from West Vancouver to Chilliwack.

[go.mouse]

Interesting news for BC drivers. Thanks.

[richardboy316]

http://www.surreyleader.com/portals-...d=714913&more=

Bad drivers under gun as accident rates spike



Armed with a laser speed gun, RCMP Const. Peter Neily draws a bead on drivers at the south end of the Pattullo Bridge Wednesday morning. Officers stopped an average of one car every two minutes during a two-hour safety blitz. EVAN SEAL / THE LEADER
By Dan Ferguson
Staff Reporter
Aug 25 2006

An average of one car every two minutes was pulled over during a police speed check at the south end of the Pattullo Bridge Wednesday morning.

The 11 a.m. to noon crackdown was part of a one-day Lower Mainland blitz organized by ICBC and various police departments as part of a summer-long campaign against aggressive driving.

It took place during a week when traffic accidents rose sharply in Surrey, with nine serious accidents in five days, three of them fatal.

At the Pattullo, police issued nine tickets with fines, 11 written warnings and about 40 verbal cautions.

The offenders ran the gamut of ages and backgrounds. Among them was a 69-year-old man in a family sedan who was doing 81 km/h in a 50 km/h zone.

When he was ordered to pull over, the senior parked on the wrong side of the road, forcing a Mountie to walk across two lanes of heavy traffic to talk to him.

Another driver, a man in his 30s, was driving a station wagon with his child in the front seat and chattering into his cell phone as he sped off the bridge.

“He was still talking as he pulled up,” said Cpl. Chuck Singh.

One speeder was a visitor from Korea who didn’t speak a word of English.

“His sister did all the talking,” Singh said. “She said he didn’t understand.”

While Singh and his fellow officers were ticketing southbound traffic, civilian volunteers were running a radar reader board on northbound vehicles.

Volunteer team leader Shana Munif said some motorists weren’t slowing down when they spotted the radar display.

“I’ve seen a lot of heavy-duty vehicles like (semi trailer) trucks that don’t even care,” Munif said.

“They’re in the 80s (in a 50 km/h zone).”

Munif was taking down licence plate numbers of the worst offenders and passing them on to New Westminster Police.

In North Delta, a two-hour stakeout near Kittson Parkway and Summit produced 11 fines and six written warnings. Delta Police clocked 275 vehicles exceeding the 50 km/h limit, 15 of them between 70 and 88 km/h.

As the number of accidents continued to rise in Surrey this week, Mounties issued a public appeal for caution, saying there have been 17 fatal accidents so far this year compared to 15 for the same period in 2005.

Among the latest serious accidents:

A motorcyclist was rushed to hospital Tuesday morning with serious head injuries after slamming into the back of a tractor that was mowing grass along the side of Highway 10 near 182 Street.

At Leader press time, the motorcyclist was listed in critical condition.

Tuesday afternoon, a 59-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk near 156 Street and 84 Avenue when he was hit by a van trying to evade a collision.

The pedestrian suffered broken ribs and serious cuts.

The van driver is facing charges, police said.

On Wednesday morning, some of the officers at the Pattullo Bridge speed check were called away to investigate a collision at the intersection of Old Yale Road and 134A Avenue that sent a 45-year-old woman to hospital with critical injuries.[/list]

[go.mouse]

LTI Ultralytes are BC police force's primary weapon against speeders.

[richardboy316]

LTI Ultralytes are BC police force's primary weapon against speeders.

why are there like three lenses

[go.mouse]

The top one is the scope, and the other two are laser receiving lenses.

[kpatz]

why are there like three lenses

The gun itself has two lenses, one transmit and one receive. The small lens on top is the HUD/viewfinder (scope) lens that the operator looks through to aim the gun.

[richardboy316]

not all lasers guns have the two lens right...does having the two lenses give this particular gun an advantage