Tag: highway patrol

With rainy weather over the final shopping weekend before Christmas and more storms forecast for Christmas Day, the California Highway Patrol prepared itself for “some of the toughest challenges.”

The Hollister Police Department and the California Highway Patrol conducted a DUI/Driver license checkpoint Sept. 1, on San Felipe Road at Gateway Drive. The operation led to the arrest of two individuals for DUI, one warrant arrest and 22 citations.

An accident at the intersection of Hwy. 156 and Hwy. 25 slowed traffic this morning when a black Ford explorer collided with a white pick up truck, according to a California Highway Patrol report.

Hot summer days across the country contributed to  six child deaths so far this year from heat stroke when children were left unattended in vehicles; that fact has caused the California Highway Patrol to issue a warning about the extreme danger of leaving children in hot vehicles this summer.

A big-rig flipped on Highway 152 near Frazier Lake Drive around 2:30 p.m. today and is blocking traffic in both directions, causing drivers to turn around and find an alterate route, according to the California Highway Patrol.