Esh

Oregon's highlight of the month, right here. What a story, 90mph. The author makes it out like it's the end of the world.

Show's you how bored the OSP gets pulling over econoboxes and suv's. Also how bored the Oregonian's writers are.

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LZH

Just another reason why Oregon sucks. Gotta keep all the polution from high hp cars down so the weed grows better

jrcart

90MPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Say it ain't so LOL

He must be up for officer of the year after a bust like that. Did I mention COPS SUCK?

seven11

"East of town, Senior Trooper David Peterson spotted five of the cars. As he chased after them, a sixth exotic racer sped past his patrol car. Peterson was eventually able to stop all six vehicles and cite their drivers for speed racing (a $679 ticket!)."


AHAHAHAHAH one guy actaully passed a cop AHAHAHAHAHAh, SAVAGE,

for those guys 700 dollars aint sh*t

Max.H

I'm sure the laughs alone were worth 700.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

hahaha interesting news

Jon2007E63P30

you play you pay.

We have most all at one point or another made that decision.

velvet fog

Oregon also has this crazy law where anything over 100 they seize your vehicle and arrest you. Makes those 140 mph motorcycle blasts a little more exciting.

str8ridin

We has a 500 mile cruise through Washington with extoics and after the second leg started, the Wash HP had so many calls about a pack of fast cars flying through the mountain roads that they set up helicopters and units everywhere on the way back. Lots of tickets were issued, but all of them were dismissed because a few of the guys in the pack were lawyers.

And what is crazier is that a few of the guys caught in OR were from Canada....and their tickets are worthless...basically giving them immunity to speeding!!

Loophole Lets Foreign Drivers Skip Paying Tickets

Chris Halsne
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Investigative Reporter

Posted: 10:32 am PST March 5, 2009
Updated: 10:34 am PST March 6, 2009

SEATTLE -- An exclusive KIRO Team 7 Investigation cracks open an international controversy -- uncovering how thousands of foreign drivers break our traffic laws with zero consequence.

DUI, reckless endangerment, speeding -- you name it -- they get away with it. We begin as Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne unravels a violent hit-and-run in Everett.

Last October, a silver sport car zips into a parking lot along Everett Mall Way and, bam, runs down a pair of 13-year-old boys riding a bike down the sidewalk. The driver flees, but quick-thinking witnesses write down a British Columbia, Canada license plate (199 EJG). Halsne had no trouble finding the suspect, so why didn't Everett police bother?

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“I was holding my side and it hurt really bad,” accident victim Cody Christmas told Halsne. “Then he got out of his car and started cussing at me and yelling at me.”

Chrisman felt lucky to limp away from that moment with just a bent bike wheel, a badly bruised knee, and an injured back.

Witnesses to the hit-and-run accident say Cody didn't do anything wrong; an out-of-control driver was to blame.

Cindy Williams saw the entire crash unfold.

“The kids were on the sidewalk next to him. He had to pass the kids to take the right. There's no way he couldn't see them. We saw them. They were in front of us. No way he could have missed that.”

Williams also says the suspect didn’t want to stick around.

“My husband told the guy he needed to stay because we needed to call the police and make sure everyone was OK, make sure the kids were going to be taken care of and he threw his arms up and drove away. He was not interested in staying. Not interested in filing a police report. Not interested in doing his part in taking responsibility for what he did."

Not that day, nor months later. KIRO Team 7 Investigators tracked down the suspect, holed up inside a secure high-rise in New Westminster, B.C. The still-dented Mercedes Benz SKL that struck Cody sat nearby in his private parking space.

Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne was left standing outside by the security phone box.

Halsne: "Why not come down and tell us what happened?"

Suspect: "Cause I don't want to come down. I don't want to talk to you. There's not a problem with me. This has been misconstrued and I was treated like a posse was after me when it happened and I'm not going to come down. This is over as far as I'm concerned. Not a chance. Go away."

The mystery man is 67-year-old Angelo Wayne Bertoia. Everett police wrote up a report naming him as a suspect, but never even called the guy, and they closed the case with no charges, no ticket.

Detectives told Cody's mom, Dena Lovtang, it's because Bertoia is Canadian.

“I said, 'You've got to be kidding me!' He said, 'No, that's the law and it’s not worth it. There is nothing we can do because they won't cooperate.'”

The Canadian government has agreed to help U.S. law enforcement with cross-border felony criminal cases, but not with enforcing traffic infractions. That’s because Washington state and B.C. have never signed what’s called a reciprocity agreement.

As a result, an exclusive computer analysis, conducted by KIRO Team 7 Investigators, found that of the 18,122 tickets issued to B.C. residents in less than two years, at least 3,220 B.C. resident tickets also turned into warrants for "failure to pay." That means the violators repeatedly ignored requests to pay the fines.

A reciprocity agreement would force Canadians to deal with their tickets when caught in the United States breaking traffic laws or face losing the right to drive back in their home country. As it stands now, paying fines or coming to court is voluntary.

Those who witnessed Angelo Wayne Bertoia run into Cody on his bike want that to change.

Cindy Williams remains fired up about this accident months later telling us, “I understand we probably can't invade Canada and go get him and drag him out, but if comes back, he should definitely have to face the consequences of our law.”

Cody Chrisman has his own opinion of Bertoia.

"When you come down here and hit somebody, then you get scared and run back to your own country, it's kind of cowardice."

Everett police tell us they have reopened this hit-and-run investigation. That comes after KIRO-TV raised questions about the accuracy of the original on-scene investigation and why the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office was excluded from reviewing the matter.

source: http://www.kirotv.com/news/18862703/detail.html

juicee63

This will teach those drivers to slow down haha, it would be cheaper to permit the event and pay a few troopers as escorts!

RenntechE55

how did a NSX and F40 get in the same car club? lol

Thericker

Ca. drivers be weary, I just went to court (got Traffic School thank God) for a krappy Red-light Camera ticket ($500 NOT including Traffic School fees & only option for Traffic School is a mandatory 12 Hr's in Class only NO Internet traffic school allowed

OSP story: This part pisses me off, some ****** driver ratted them all out, they were only running thru desolate farm land @ the time

Esh

Desolate farmland that just happens to be between Salem (state capital) and the coast. For how small that community is, there sure are a lot of OSP in the area.

CWW

I saw on the news that our state (Florida) is trying to pass a law that will allow the cops to just give up on motorcycle chases, but write down the license plate and then show up later and confiscate the bike with NO trial and NO hearing, as punishment. Then they will get to auction it off and keep the money as a "fine".

Apparently they're having a real problem because police cruisers can't come anywhere close to keeping up with a bike, and 9 times out of 10 the guy is getting away. So the cops want this new law so they can just go confiscate the bike later as punishment.

It's a little gestapo-ish in my opinion. What if you let someone else ride it, and the cops show up an hour later and say "we're taking it"? How is that legal?

CWW

You gotta get one of those remote-control license plate covers. When you push a button, it turns from clear to opaque. Hehehehe...

Have it on opaque when you're cruisin' around, and if you see a cop coming turn it back to clear.

turbotim720

there is one problem with those if ur car is parked and off it cant be on because it has to have power but still good to have

ejsheltra

Ontario, Canada, has a law that exceeding 120 kilometers is a $10,00.00 fine and immediate roadside impound and jail. It is posted between the Buffalo Peace Bridge and Cambridge, Ontario on the 401 and Q.E.W. And the choppers are in the air and dancing over your roof top. Impossible to see except for the shadow on the ground.

Karlson

I will be driving to Toronto next month, but Merc doesn't include kmh on a speedo. should I tell Ontario cops that I thought that I didn't know what does KMH stands for ?

blk07bruins63

You will be fine as long as you wear a Maple Leafs hat!!!!

a_Y

i live in ontario and i think it is exceeding the speed limit by 50km/h that they impound your car and you get an immediate license suspension. There are MANY, actually i mean ALMOST EVERYONE, that drive above 120km/h but not above 150km/h.

intellilogic

NSX isn't 100k, its 25k-40k POS. The rest are top.

Why the **** did they stop for 1 trooper? I would have dipped, **** that.

Wryfox

IN florida since June 2008, 30mph over posted speed is considered criminal offense, arrest made, car impounded. There is a very straight wide road near me posted 55 everywhere except in front of school is 35. Everyone drives 65-70 on this road...guess where the cops hang out.

Blacksport350

"Racing Cars"....wow, they are idiots in the Oregon farmland!

VCA_AMG

Ricker, which district? I got a red-light ticket in Hollywood/Beverly Hills last month. Paid the ticket, requested traffic school when I paid (never went to court) and was given the option of in-class or at-home (video) traffic school. Obviously I'm taking the video option. This was my first ticket of any kind in over 18 months though.