CAMARILLO : City to be Honored for Traffic Safety
The city of Camarillo, where no pedestrians have been killed in accidents since 1981, will be honored by an auto club for its safety programs.
Representatives of the Automobile Club of Southern California, acting on behalf of the American Automobile Assn., will present Mayor David Smith a plaque at a City Council meeting Wednesday night.
The city will be honored for the quality of its traffic safety programs in schools, maintenance of accident records, safety legislation, traffic engineering, and public information and education programs, club officials said.
In 1989, there were an average of 1.7 fatalities in cities of Camarillo’s size. Also in 1989, 22 pedestrians were injured in accidents, while an average of 47 were hurt in other cities the same size.
Police Sgt. Bill Boyd attributes the city’s low accident rate to its pedestrian education program in the elementary schools--and to luck.
“We’ve been real fortunate,” Boyd said.
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