Because You Asked! Part 2

Over the past weeks of being able to provide the public with various traffic safety related information, I have received emails from folks requesting specific information that my be useful or informative to others.

The following are their specific inquires and…

Monty Hight Traffic Safety Tips: Because You Asked!

Over the past weeks of being able to provide the public with various traffic safety related information, I have received emails from folks requesting specific information that may be useful or informative to others.

The following are two specific inquires and…

How Loud Is ‘Too Loud’?

After discussing motorcycles splitting traffic, several readers expressed a concern regarding loud exhaust systems.  As with most equipment violations, exhaust systems have specific limitations and requirements.

People hold different opinions about how loud is too loud, but the following is what…

Kids Are More Than Cargo

Remember when you were 4 or 5 years old and would be standing on the front seat of the family car when all of a sudden your mom would hit the brakes and her right arm would fly out to…

Traffic Safety Tips: Why Die Due to a DUI?

Being No. 1 is something that a lot of us strive for.  The No. 1 football team.  No. 1 on the record charts.

Here in Redding we’re No. 1, and it isn’t good. We have a drinking and driving problem.  Redding is No. 5…

‘Right-of-way’ means the right way!

There is a right way and a wrong way of doing things, and when it comes to driving, doing it the right way gets my vote.  I have received many concerns involving right-of-way violations.

Merging into traffic, whether it is from…

Go, Granny, Go! or No, Granny, No!

Shortly after my first retirement from the California Highway Patrol, I became a volunteer American Association of Retired Persons driving instructor.  At the end of my first day of class, I contacted AARP and asked if I could make referrals…

True or False: Must Wear Shoes To Drive

By a show of hands, how many peoplebelieve it’s unlawful to drive without your shoes on?  How about, it’s unlawful to read or view written material from the driver’s position?  How about the law against eating or drinking that requires…

Traffic Safety Tips 4 - Remember Those Good Ol’ Days?

There was a time when you would pile as many kids as would fit in the back of the pickup truck, stuff a few leftovers in the cab and head on down the highway, thinking everything is fine.  I recall…

Traffic Safety Tips 3 - Why Two Speed Limits?

You’re traveling down a two-lane freeway in the fast lane (known to law enforcement as the #1 lane) with your cruise control set at 70 miles per hour.  Approximately a quarter-mile ahead of you, there are two commercial tractors and…