A driver was stopped Sunday, April 5, after being clocked at 91 mph in a 55 mph zone on State Route 154, the California Highway Patrol’s Santa Barbara office said in a social media post.
CHP warned that speeding on SR-154 puts everyone at serious risk due to the roadway’s curves, limited visibility, and changing traffic conditions.
CHP posted the warning with a photo of a yellow FJ cruiser pulled over on the side of the road.
The agency urged motorists to slow down, stay alert, and “save lives.”
Officers said they will continue proactive speed enforcement on the corridor to keep roads safe for all drivers.
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I hope that the driver will get more than just a few hundred dollars in fines and points on their license. 91 mph on San Marcos Pass doesn’t happen accidentally. This person made a conscious choice to put everyone in their car and other drivers on the road at great risk, presumably just for the fun of driving fast. In my mind, this kind of behavior is as bad as drunk driving, for which we punish people with jail, enormous fines, and loss of driving privileges.
This is outrageous. Drivers like this need to have their licenses revoked first offense. This is why people die all the time on the 154. I’ve always said, we need more cops patrolling that road and handing out severe penalties for reckless drivers like this. There needs to be a zero tolerance policy for this kind of offense in these circumstances. Certain roads should carry heavier penalties for this.
Thanks for the reminder, CHP, but there needs to be more than just warnings.
For anyone living in fear of “speeders” on Hwy 154 or anywhere else for that matter, please do not get behind the wheel until you can build up some confidence to “run with the Big Dogs.” I’m not saying that timid, nervous, and/or unsure drivers should start speeding, rather the opposite. Skittish drivers have no business to get behind the wheel of a vehicle because they are simply a danger to others. Speeders will be speeders because that’s how they roll. Give ’em tickets. Fine them. Raise their insurance rates. Confiscate their vehicles if that’s what it takes, but don’t take it out on skilled drivers who may go a bit (sometime more) above the speed limit on wide-open roads. Outlawing cars that go more than 45 mph so timid drivers can join us on the roads is not the answer as some may think. Possibly allow unsure drivers to drive only on Curley Ave., Fig Ave., Wellington Ave., La Paz Ave. Carmelita Ave. and Brinkerhoff every-other Sunday.
Bee Knee post sound like the ramblings of a dotard simpleton, fueled by alcohol, for free personal amusement.
BEES – what an absolutely stupid thing to say. Being “skittish” has nothing to do with it, you fool. When someone is driving 91 miles an hour on the 154, an already risk drive full of blind curves, etc, then it’s about staying alive. Going 80 on the 101 is one thing, but to defend this as so unbelievable dumb, out of touch and wreckless.
It’s hard to believe you were somehow allowed to teach students. I don’t think you should be even allowed to leave the house with a soiled and vacuous brain as you prove to us daily that you possess.
Bat$*%T Drivel. Get off the sauce lady. You are dangerous.
Dunning-Kruger examples like Bends Knees always think they are skilled drivers, able to push the limits without consequence.
91 mph on the Pass will get someone killed, regularly. Absurd. I don’t know what the max penalties are for this but I bet it’s weak currently in this state. CA is generally very weak on crime of all types, unfortunately.
“I don’t know what the max penalties are for this”
But you keep flapping your gums anyway.