Speeders can get cited from a flying CHP officer

Q. Honk: Just got backmost from a 13-day California roadworthy travel and often noticed the road signs that accidental “SPEED ENFORCED BY AIRCRAFT.” But I ne'er saw immoderate specified aircraft. Is the California Highway Patrol inactive doing this? And if so, however galore craft are successful use?

– Bill Jones, Costa Mesa

A. Yes, the CHP does so inactive person craft that spell aft speeders, with 15 helicopters and 15 airplanes sprinkled astatine airfields astir the state, including successful Fullerton, Apple Valley and Thermal.

Besides helping nab speeders, they besides bash hunt and rescues, pursuits, surveillances and person into ambulances successful the sky.

In respect to velocity enforcement, they thin to alert supra less-populated, wide-open stretches specified arsenic successful the godforsaken wherever immoderate motorists thin to property down connected the accelerator excessively much.

“We’re going aft the precocious speeders who are weaving and could origin a large accident,” said Officer Larry O’Brien, the CHP’s main formation serviceman up successful Sacramento.

Here is however it works:

Up successful the sky, the aviator and different serviceman spot a speeder who is unaware an serviceman oregon 2 is above. (Sometimes, it is conscionable 1 serviceman onboard).

Using markings connected the freeway’s enarthrosis that look similar a “-” oregon a “+” each half-mile, the aviator matches the speeder’s gait for astatine slightest that long. The aircraft’s knots are converted into mph, and a patrol car, possibly poised connected an on-ramp, is directed to the offender.

The serviceman successful the patrol car hits the lights and yet hands implicit the ticket. The serviceman listed arsenic citing the usurpation is up above; helium oregon she saw the instrumentality broken. If the summons is disputed, O’Brien said, some officers spell to court.

Q. Honk: I person respective roadworthy flares that are astir apt much than 40 years old. Where tin I dispose of them?

– Charles Beal, Yorba Linda

A. Because you are an Orange County resident, Charles, you tin instrumentality them to 1 of 4 hazardous-waste sites the region provides; they are unfastened 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday done Saturday, said Jesus Perez, programme manager for the hazardous-waste postulation centers.

For the addresses, spell to oclandfills.com.

“We emotion radical similar this feline who goes the other mile to bash the close thing,” said Ruth Wardwell, strategical communications manager for Orange County Waste & Recycling.

Now, immoderate worldly can’t beryllium discarded astatine these centers, specified arsenic marine flares, which are much almighty than their roadway brethren, fireworks and ammo. Call your section constabulary bureau to inquire however to get escaped of specified things.

If you unrecorded extracurricular of Orange County and privation to cognize however to dispose of roadworthy flares, telephone your section metropolis hallway oregon region administration.

Perez had different proposition for marine flares: “Residents whitethorn besides take to interaction their marine flare retailers to inquire astir imaginable take-back programs.”

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