speeding

Richland Police address the decades-old claim that law enforcement write tickets to raise revenue

During the week of February 12 through February 18 Officers investigated 26 collisions, 12 the result of a driver not stopping for a red light.

During the past 6 months police have made more than 4,000 traffic stops and issued more than 2,000 citations.

Capt. Jay Seely Commander of the city traffic unit says officers are now charged with making 3 to 4 traffic stops a day

Doing any of these things in your car could get you in serious trouble with the law. Learn the rules of the road before it's too late.

And we never will!

Seely says now patrol officers in Yakima have been asked to "be mindful of this collision-causing behavior and either cite or educate where appropriate."

Do you notice this too? It can't just be me who sees this time and time again. Drivers are either too distracted, or even worse I fear, there are those who know they're doing it, know that it's a dangerous risk, and are doing it anyway. Is it just becoming acceptable?

The zones are open from 7:00am to 4:00pm weekdays.

Keep your radar detector, but shut off your smart phone…that is if you want to speed. In an new initiative to keep drivers from being distracted by their cell phones, the Highway Electronic Radio Enforcement Squad (HERES) has been created...