Local News in Brief : CHP Strengthens Patrols in Calabasas and Agoura Canyons
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California Highway Patrol officials announced that they have beefed up patrols on canyon roads in Calabasas and Agoura in a crackdown on reckless drivers who last year caused six traffic deaths in the area.
Six extra officers have been assigned to canyon duty through next fall, according to Capt. Richard Kerri, commander of the highway patrol’s West Valley area office in Woodland Hills. Three officers normally patrol the canyon roads and the Ventura Freeway from the West Valley to the Thousand Oaks city limits.
Kerri said there was an 8% increase in mountain-road traffic accidents last year over 1983. Only one person died on the roadways in 1983, according to CHP records.
CHP spokesman Kenn Rosenberg said the extra patrols will be deployed on weekends and on warm weekdays when heavy beach traffic is expected. He said officers will watch for speeding cars and motorcycles and for people driving on the wrong side of such routes as Kanan Road, Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road.
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