HALF MOON BAY/PACIFICA (KRON)—For the seventh time this year, there has been a crackdown on the Peninsula.
Officers from all around were targeting trouble spots in an attempt to cut down on traffic related deaths.
So where were they this time Stanley Roberts takes a closer look.
“The reason I stopped you on the top of that hill when you were coming around that S turn you were doing 40 miles an hour so you realize it’s a posted 25, ” said Officer Grant from the Colma Police Department.
This driver was just pulled over by Officer Grant except we’re not in the city of Colma.
The car was coming down the hill in Pacifica and Officer Grant running LIDAR. He is part of the month crackdown known as STEP which stands for San Mateo County Saturation Traffic Enforcement Program. Its traffic officers from all around San Mateo County including the California Highway Patrol and the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
One driver was stopped for not wearing his seat-belt.
“Just need you to sign here on the yellow,” an officer said to a driver.
Another driver was cited by a City of San Mateo officer for doing 68 in a 45 on Highway 1.
Back to Officer Grant, he also caught another driver going faster than the posted speed limit in Pacifica.
“Your speed when you came around the S turn when I got my first line of sight of you were doing 42 miles per hour,” Grant said.
Then, there was the driver of an plumbing van. He wasn’t speeding, he wasn’t on his cell phone and he had on his seat belt but there was a problem and it had to do with what was on the van.
“I want to talk to you about your mansory lights in the front,” the officer said to the plumbing van driver. “The light bar across the front. Did you install that or is it a company truck? So this guy told you it was okay to put it on there and he told you it was completely legal in California and he cited California law that says you can put any white lights anywhere on your vehicle. Probably not right.”
Then officers moved over to Half Moon Bay where they were checking for any traffic violations. We found an driver rolling around with a cracked windshield
“How long your windshield been cracked?” I asked.
“A couple months,” the driver said.
Since he was taking so long to get the windshield repaired,he was given a fix-it ticket to move the process a little faster.
Fifteen traffic officers stopped 107 drivers and issues 82 tickets for everything from cell phones to speeding. One driver was cited for doing 80 plus in a 45 and yes I did talk to some of the people caught
“Do I need to give consent about this?” the driver of the car with the light bar asked.
And more details on the illegal light bar.
“They’re supposed to be covered and off,” the officer said.
That will be in a future addition of People Behaving Badly.