Radar Checks to Start Oct. 1 on Kanan Road
California Highway Patrol officials said Wednesday that Agoura-area CHP officers will begin aiming radar guns at speeders along dangerous Kanan Road about Oct. 1 in a safety crackdown requested by Los Angeles County.
Radar units purchased by the county for use along the 12-mile mountain road are now being tested and certified for accuracy in Michigan, said Ken Milton, head of public affairs for the CHP in Sacramento.
But implementation of another part of the county-sought crackdown--a “sobriety checkpoint” along Kanan Road--remains up in the air, Milton said.
No checkpoint site has been found and it is questionable whether Kanan Road’s drunk-driver accident rate record justifies such a roadblock under guidelines of the state attorney general’s office, he said.
The safety campaign was ordered in late July by county supervisors. Five persons died earlier in the summer in crashes on Kanan Road.
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