This deserves your attention.
Motorcycle Enthusiasts the Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operations are going to be starting soon in cities throughout California.
I believe the idea is good if the focus is stayed on the automobile driving civilian as the main focus of this education by enforcement program.
The safety government agencies as the N.H.T.S.A. work by change through education or enforcement. This is interesting change by enforcement plus education . The Media attention is huge if it stays focused on the cager's responsibilities and we do not get dumped on. Do you know what I mean? I see the spirit of this program is good if it does not distort.
The additional message in this current version is about lane splitting --- that drivers need to know that lane splitting by motorcyclists is legal, if done safely, and riders who choose to split need to know how to do it safely, and should consult the General Lane Splitting Guidelines.
Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operations Program is designed to utilize enforcement to carry motorcycle awareness messages to the automobile drivers.
The big safety target is the media attention and publicity that will be involved with the Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Stop Operations. The hope is that the media coverage will be reaching out to large numbers of motorists that they are responsible for their actions in regards to motorcycle safety.
" Quote" Motorcycle safety enforcement operations are simply general traffic enforcement operations that would be occurring anyway---we are just renaming them “motorcycle safety enforcement operations” in order to use them as a mechanism for public awareness---a mechanism to get the news media to deliver motorcycle safety messages. The media stories will reach far more people than the traffic stops.
Improving Motorcycle Safety Aim of City Police Department Operation
Careless motorists as well as riders get special scrutiny
The City Police Departments will be conducting a specialized Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation on a date coming soon in an effort to lower deaths and injuries. Extra officers will be on duty patrolling areas frequented by motorcyclists and where motorcycle crashes occur. Officers will be looking for violations made by drivers and riders alike that can lead to motorcycle crashes. They will be cracking down on both those ”operating regular vehicles " and motorcycles who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, speeding, making illegal turns, or any other dangerous violation.
Motorcycle fatalities saw a phenomenal drop of 37 percent from 2008 to 2010, but then rose 23 percent by 2012. Operations like this are aimed at curbing any more rises in motorcycle deaths and sending the numbers back downward.
Eric P. / BRO
Political Researcher/ Safety Rep.
Biker Rights Organization
