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Posted on Thu, Mar. 01, 2007
FHP speeding blitz nets creative excuses
BY ERIKA BERAS
Everyone has an excuse when they are pulled over for speeding. But Johanna Maria Collaza's was an eye-opener: She was late for a Miami Dade College civics class.
She didn't make it to class. But she learned a valuable -- if expensive -- lesson, anyway: Never drive inordinately fast during Operation Safe Ride, a two-day statewide enforcement effort by the Florida Highway Patrol.
It may be the only two-day span when Florida state troopers truly have the upper hand over the Miami-Dade and Broward's legions of speeders. More of the same is planned today.
Wednesday, there were marked and unmarked cruisers on the Don Shula Expressway, guided from the sky by Domingo J. Torres, one of nine FHP pilots statewide. His Cessna 182 was equipped with two Robic Accutrak machines, a radar that works from the sky.
''It's like shooting fish in a barrel,'' said the pilot, and the cliché was apt.
Drivers could not see him, soaring 100 miles an hour at 2,000 feet altitude. But he could see them. And he could measure their speed by timing how long it took to travel between road markings set one mile apart.
Torres would radio down to waiting troopers whenever he saw motorists traveling considerably over the 60 mph limit.
''Looks like a green pickup on the inside lane,'' Torres said, guiding troopers on the ground. ``He's at 80. Now he's in the far left lane. He's going 75. He's going to be behind a truck. Look, look for a dark-colored vehicle . . .''
Busted.
When they were pulled over, most of the motorists collared Wednesday had excuses: children to pick up, jobs and classes they were late for.
They got tickets for around $200 -- depending on how much over the limit they were going.
The FHP figures efforts like this just might save lives.
So far this year, 79 people have been killed in traffic accidents in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, said Lt. Pat Santangelo, a spokesman for the Highway Patrol.
Sam Johnson, a trooper who moonlights as a minister, pulled over Collaza, the 22-year-old student allegedly driving 21 mph over the limit.
As it turned out, the speeding citation wasn't her biggest problem. Her license had been suspended three times, most recently last week. The car, her boyfriend's, was towed.
As soon as troopers busted one speeder, Torres would alert them to another. Fish in a barrel. ''Look at this guy,'' said Torres. ``Driving like that. He thinks this is a good idea. These people are killing me.''
Torres kept track of the tickets on a ledger. The names would be added later to a log book sitting in his office.
The book weighs 20 pounds.
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Posted on Thu, Mar. 01, 2007
FHP speeding blitz nets creative excuses
BY ERIKA BERAS
Everyone has an excuse when they are pulled over for speeding. But Johanna Maria Collaza's was an eye-opener: She was late for a Miami Dade College civics class.
She didn't make it to class. But she learned a valuable -- if expensive -- lesson, anyway: Never drive inordinately fast during Operation Safe Ride, a two-day statewide enforcement effort by the Florida Highway Patrol.
It may be the only two-day span when Florida state troopers truly have the upper hand over the Miami-Dade and Broward's legions of speeders. More of the same is planned today.
Wednesday, there were marked and unmarked cruisers on the Don Shula Expressway, guided from the sky by Domingo J. Torres, one of nine FHP pilots statewide. His Cessna 182 was equipped with two Robic Accutrak machines, a radar that works from the sky.
''It's like shooting fish in a barrel,'' said the pilot, and the cliché was apt.
Drivers could not see him, soaring 100 miles an hour at 2,000 feet altitude. But he could see them. And he could measure their speed by timing how long it took to travel between road markings set one mile apart.
Torres would radio down to waiting troopers whenever he saw motorists traveling considerably over the 60 mph limit.
''Looks like a green pickup on the inside lane,'' Torres said, guiding troopers on the ground. ``He's at 80. Now he's in the far left lane. He's going 75. He's going to be behind a truck. Look, look for a dark-colored vehicle . . .''
Busted.
When they were pulled over, most of the motorists collared Wednesday had excuses: children to pick up, jobs and classes they were late for.
They got tickets for around $200 -- depending on how much over the limit they were going.
The FHP figures efforts like this just might save lives.
So far this year, 79 people have been killed in traffic accidents in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, said Lt. Pat Santangelo, a spokesman for the Highway Patrol.
Sam Johnson, a trooper who moonlights as a minister, pulled over Collaza, the 22-year-old student allegedly driving 21 mph over the limit.
As it turned out, the speeding citation wasn't her biggest problem. Her license had been suspended three times, most recently last week. The car, her boyfriend's, was towed.
As soon as troopers busted one speeder, Torres would alert them to another. Fish in a barrel. ''Look at this guy,'' said Torres. ``Driving like that. He thinks this is a good idea. These people are killing me.''
Torres kept track of the tickets on a ledger. The names would be added later to a log book sitting in his office.
The book weighs 20 pounds.
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plane wont be able to detect us cuz we usually go slower than the speed of traffic anyways...
plus how is he gonna be able to see with headlights pointed striaght at him???
plus how is he gonna be able to see with headlights pointed striaght at him???
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