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If you have been involved in a traffic accident and it was not the Highway Patrol that handled it, there is a 75% chance or greater, that the accident was handled incorrectly!
Even if the Highway Patrol worked on your accident, there is a good chance something is wrong in or was missed in the investigation. Normally, it wouldn't be the investigating officers fault for this, but his supervisor. Unfortunately, there are a great many supervisors and more management level personal that have no clue how to work a proper investigation.
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So you live in a city and you figure the "City Police" will handle your traffic accident. Think again.
Modesto, California (for example):
- Rarely respond to a traffic accident that does not have an injury.
- They will send poorly trained civilians, referred to as "Community Service Officer" or CSO. They never investigate an accident, but merely take notes and write a report. This merely shows you have been involved in a collision and may or may not be at fault.
- Should you wait around 3 or 5 hours and one of their "Officers" do arrive, they may take a report, but it will be no more involved than the "CSO's" report.
You live in a city that has contracted out to the Sheriff Department:
If you expect a "Deputy Sheriff" to properly investigate a traffic collision, you live in the Land of Oz. They receive less training in the proper way to INVESTIGATE a traffic collision than the local police department officers.
Oh, but lets say that you live in say Stanislaus County. There the Sheriff has worked several agreements to take over and replace the small city police departments. Generally speaking it was a good idea that is until your child or wife are injured because of a drunk driver or ran over while crossing the street!
People who live in the city of Riverbank and Hughson, etc. all have the same problem -
- All accidents from the fender bender to multiple deaths are being worked by officers who are lacking in even the basic understandings of vehicle dynamics that happen in a traffic accident.
- If by chance they hired an old police officer that did handle collisions in the city before the S.O. took over, they are slightly better equipped. It would be something like asking Forrest Gump to solve your daughters' death.
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Disturbing Facts (from 2000 - the numbers are higher now):
During 2000, California had a total of 511,248 traffic collisions: 3,331 deaths, 198,348 injuries and 309,569 properties damage only.
A traffic collision was reported every 1 minute and 2 seconds.
One person was killed every 2 hours and 21 minutes as a result of a traffic collision.
One person was injured every 1 minute and 44 seconds as a result of a traffic collision.
As a result of the 3,331 fatal collisions, 3,730 persons were killed for an average of 1.1 deaths per fatal collision.
Bringing It Home (for 2000 alone):
- 5,366 people died or injured in Stanislaus County.
- 2,227 people died or injured in Merced County.
- 7.066 people died or injured in San Joaquin County.
- 7,348 people died or injured in Fresno County.
- 14.199 people died in Sacramento County.
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