Traffic Safety

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout Nevada will be stepping up pedestrian safety patrol efforts throughout June, specifically in areas where there are crosswalks.

Drivers around Carson City have been buckled up for the most part as law enforcement agencies across Nevada wind down the "Click it or Ticket" campaign that began May 16 and ends Wednesday.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office participation in the Joining Forces Seat Belt “Click it or Ticket” event resulted in the following:

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the state will be participating in Joining Forces through the month of May with a focus on seat belts.

Troopers, deputies, and officers will be stopping drivers for different traffic offenses and issuing citations for seatbelt violations beginning Monday and lasting through June 1 throughout Northern Nevada.

The Nevada Highway Patrol will be looking for motorists and occupants who are not buckled up while traveling. During this time, the Highway Patrol will be Joining Forces looking for drivers and other occupants in vehicles who are not wearing their seatbelts and/or children who are not properly in car or booster seat(s).

The school year is winding down, which usually means the activities and excitement around Carson High amp up in direct proportion. There is also much nailbiting and desperate prayers as freshmen and sophomores take their End of Course exams, juniors and seniors finish taking their AP exams, and finals approach for all students.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office participation in the Joining Forces Distracted Drivers event held from April 1 to April 20th resulted in the following:

1 arrest for DUI, 21 citations issued for cell phone use, 1 citation for an individual cutting their hair while driving, 2 citations for failure to yield to a pedestrian, 89 for speed, 19 stop sign and traffic light violations. In addition, 41 citations were issued for other traffic related violations.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office recently participated in the Joining Forces law enforcement effort to stop impaired drivers and riders. The operation was done between March 17 to March 31 and resulted in the following:

The Nevada Departments of Transportation and Public Safety and other partners have updated the Nevada Strategic Highway Safety Plan in a continuing effort to save lives on Nevada roads.

With St. Patrick's Day being one of the biggest holidays centered around partying, the South Lake Tahoe Police Department will have a DUI Checkpoint as well as extra patrols on the roads to help lower deaths and injuries.
The checkpoint will be held from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.

The westbound lane of Highway 50 near Cave Rock at Lake Tahoe was closed Monday as the Nevada Department of Transportation works to remove a large boulder that fell Saturday night causing a non-injury accident.

UPDATE: SUNDAY 1:40PM: From Nevada Department of Transportation: At approximately 6:30 pm Saturday, a large boulder rolled onto westbound Highway 50 in the Glenbrook area of Lake Tahoe, causing a non-injury accident. Nevada Highway Patrol, NDOT and other safety agencies immediately responded.

Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout Nevada will be participating in Joining Forces through the month of February. The focus will be speeding drivers.

On Sunday, Jan. 31, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office will be conducting a compliance checkpoint on William Street. In addition to focusing on impaired drivers, the checkpoint will also be looking for driver’s license and registration violations.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the state will be participating in Joining Forces through the month of January and into the first part of February 2016. The focus will be on Impaired drivers.

Carson City experienced two traffic related fatalities in 2015 compared to five in 2014, according to figures released Monday from the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety. Of those, one involved a pedestrian and one was alcohol related. There were not any motorcycle related fatalities in Carson City for the year. In 2014 there were three.

Douglas and Lyon County law enforcement agencies and the Nevada Highway Patrol will step up traffic enforcement in both counties beginning this week as part of the first Joining Forces effort of the new year, officials said Monday.

Over the past months I have addressed many subjects related to traffic safety. These articles were written to educate and inform you, the motoring public, on a variety of issues from drinking and driving to pedestrian safety and other situations that arose during the year.

Now, as you travel to your holiday destinations to spend time with loved ones and friends, I ask that you take some time to consider what I have written about. Arriving safely should be your number one priority.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the state are participating in Joining Forces through the remainder of December and into the first part of January 2016. The focus will be impaired drivers.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the state will be participating in Joining Forces through the rest of the month of November. The focus of the event will be seatbelt safety “Click it or Ticket."

With Nevada Day festivities Saturday, Halloween trick or treating in Carson City is celebrated Friday. It’s different, sure, but that’s how we do things here in the capital city. With that in mind, drinking and driving can be a ghastly decision that can end up being more of a trick than a treat. The witches’ brew that you consume can lead to a frightening crash when you choose to drive afterwards.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the State, will be participating in Joining Forces through the month of October. The focus of this event will be impaired drivers and riders.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office will be participating in Impaired Driving mobilization period. This enforcement detail is partially paid for by a grant from the State of Nevada, Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout the state will be participating in Joining Forces through the month of September. The focus will be impaired drivers and riders.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office and the Nevada Highway Patrol will hold a Joining Forces crosswalk operation Monday in the Carson City area. A second operation will be held on August 23.

Deputies dressed in bright orange clothing will cross streets utilizing marked crosswalks as well as traffic light controlled intersections where pedestrians cross.

UPDATE: A crosswalk enforcement operation scheduled for Monday has been canceled. However, we are re-running this story to remind motorists to use caution along city streets and roadways as school gets underway.
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With the 2015–2016 school session set to begin statewide, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office is working diligently to urge motorists to be pedestrian aware and share the streets responsibly. In an effort to continue the downward trend in pedestrian fatalities, agencies aligned with Joining Forces will focus on enforcing pedestrian safety guidelines.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will enhance traffic safety with a new project that began Monday by installing livestock fencing on sections of Highway 50 in Silver Springs.

The project will fence approximately four and a half miles of U.S. 50 between Boyer Lane and Pinto Street and from Onyx Street to the U.S. 95 Alternate intersection in Silver Springs. The four-strand, smooth wire fencing will stand four feet high to help prevent wild horses and cattle from entering the highway.

Driver inattentiveness, speeding and cell phone use are factors for around 20 percent more vehicle crashes along Carson City area roads this year compared to the first seven months of 2014, a Carson City Sheriff’s Office sergeant said this week.

Not counting those crashes investigated by the Nevada Highway Patrol, there’s been 250-plus crashes from January to July of this year. During the first seven months of 2014, there were 200 crashes, said Carson City Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Scott McDaniel.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of July 20-26, 2015. Beginning Sunday, July 19, through Friday, July 24, there will be nightly lane closures on Carson Street between Old Clear Creek Road and Snyder Avenue from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., as part of the Nevada Department of Transportation’s continued work on the construction of the Carson City Freeway.

A 27-year-old South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Friday on a felony DUI charge after a single-vehicle rollover crash Friday that injured a passenger, a South Lake Tahoe police sergeant said. Extra patrolling and DUI checkpoints are happening this July 4 weekend throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office along with other law enforcement agencies throughout Nevada will be participating in Joining Forces through the rest of the month of July with the focus on impaired drivers and riders. Among the agencies, the Nevada Highway Patrol will hold a DUI checkpoint through the weekend.