The Los Angeles Police Department Friday will conduct an education and enforcement operation at five San Fernando Valley intersections where there have been serious accidents.
The operation will focus on vehicle and pedestrian safety at the following intersections:
— Victory Boulevard at Laurel Canyon Boulevard;
— Coldwater Canyon Avenue at Vanowen Street;
— Sepulveda Boulevard at Nordhoff Street;
— Devonshire Street at Woodley Avenue; and
— Roscoe Boulevard at DeSoto Avenue.
The Directed Enforcement Task Force, which will include personnel from the LAPD and the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, will begin about 11 a.m. and continue through the afternoon.
DETF operations are “data-driven” and bring “a laser focus to locations and causes of crashes, preventable through education, enforcement, and engineering,” according to an LAPD statement.
“The goal … is to reduce the number of traffic collisions at specific intersections that have the highest incident of fatalities (and) severe or visible injuries, through education and enforcement.”
The DETF is funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
—Staff and wire reports