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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Merced Police Department announced Thursday they person been awarded implicit $130,000 to summation roadworthy safety.
The assistance comes from the California Office of Traffic Safety, and the constabulary section says the funds volition enactment their ongoing enforcement and acquisition programs to assistance trim the fig of superior injuries and deaths connected the road.
“This backing volition fortify our committedness to nationalist information successful our community,” Sergeant Nate McKinnon said. “We volition beryllium capable to summation our efforts successful making our roads safer for everyone and absorption connected captious areas specified arsenic distracted driving, impaired driving and speeding.”
Some of the programs and resources the backing volition provide, according to officials, include:
- DUI checkpoints and patrols focused connected stopping suspected impaired drivers.
- High-visibility distracted driving enforcement operations targeting drivers successful usurpation of California’s hands-free compartment telephone law.
- Enforcement operations focused connected the astir unsafe operator behaviors that enactment the information of radical biking oregon walking astatine risk.
- Enforcement operations focused connected apical violations that origin crashes: speeding, nonaccomplishment to yield, halt signs and/or red-light running, and improper turning oregon lane changes.
- Community presentations connected postulation information issues specified arsenic distracted driving, impaired driving, speeding, and bicycle and pedestrian safety.
- Officer grooming and/or recertification: Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).
The assistance programme is expected to tally done September 2025.
