Traffic Enforcement Focus on Poor Driving Behaviors (Monthly Focus)

Traffic Enforcement Focus on Poor Driving Behaviors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 30, 2012

The Santa Monica Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Section will focus on different driving behaviors each month that are primary causation for traffic collisions. 

In August, motor officers will look for vehicles making U-turns in a business district.

The California Vehicle Code - Section 22102 Laws Applicable to U-Turn in Business District:

22102.  No person in a business district shall make a U-turn, except at an intersection, or on a divided highway where an opening has been provided in accordance with Section 21651.

This turning movement shall be made as close as practicable to the extreme left-hand edge of the lanes moving in the driver's direction of travel immediately prior to the initiation

of the turning movement, when more than one lane in the direction of travel is present.

Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline A. Seabrooks wants to remind everyone that making a U-turn is a dangerous maneuver.  U-turns in business districts should only be done

at intersections unless there is a posted sign prohibiting the maneuver.