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OXNARD POLICE DEPARTMENT
NEWS RELEASE
| INCIDENT: | Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Operation |
| DATE/TIME: | May 2, 2017 / 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
| PREPARED BY: | Jamie Brown, Traffic Coordinator (805) 385-7749 |
| CONTACT PERSON AND CONTACT INFO: | Jamie Brown, Traffic Coordinator (805) 385-7749 |
DETAILS:
Traffic Enforcement Operation Plan for Oxnard
The Oxnard Police Department will be conducting a Bicycle & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operation on May 2, 2017. The goal of this operation is to help reduce the number of collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists by enforcing the traffic violations that often result in these collisions.
For the past three years the Oxnard Police Department has identified several locations throughout the City where there has been an unusually high number of collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists.
Officers will be looking for violations made by drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians alike that often lead to life changing injuries. Special attention will be directed towards drivers who are speeding, making illegal turns, failing to stop for signs and signals, failing to yield to pedestrians in cross walks, and any other dangerous violations.
Citations will also be issued to pedestrians who are observed crossing streets illegally or failing to yield to drivers who have the right of way. Bicyclists will also receive citations when they fail to follow the same traffic laws that apply to motorists. The Oxnard Police Department urges all bicyclists to always wear a helmet. Bicyclist under the age of 18 are required to do so by law. Pedestrians should cross streets only in marked crosswalks or at corners.
Bicycle and pedestrian fatalities are on the rise in California as more people use these non-motorized means of transportation. Locally, the Oxnard Police Department has investigated 14 fatal and 506 injury collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists during the past 3 years. 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.
DATE / TIME PREPARED: May 1, 2017 / 2:00 p.m.