Authorities Friday will conduct a traffic enforcement effort at several intersections in the city’s South Bureau that have been shown to be statistically more dangerous than others.
The Directed Enforcement Task Force — DETF — operation will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., said Lt. Dave Ferry of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Emergency Operations Division.
“The goal of the DETF is to reduce the number of traffic collisions at specific intersections that have the highest incident of fatalities (or) severe or visible injuries through education and enforcement,” Ferry said in a statement.
The DETF task force is a data-driven effort that focuses on locations and causes of crashes and on ways of preventing them. The LAPD identified the following intersections in the South Bureau that the task force will focus on Friday:
— Figueroa Street at Jefferson Boulevard;
— Coliseum Street at La Brea Avenue;
— Century Boulevard at Central Avenue;
— Figueroa Street at Vernon Avenue; and
— La Brea Avenue at Rodeo Road
The DETF is funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
—City News Service