A driver, who had no license or insurance, and had two children under 5-years-old in the vehicle, was ticketed for going 120-mph on hwy.4 today, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The CHP says the very next stop, another driver, who recently had his car impounded for a separate violation, along with going over 100+-mph, was ticketed today for going 105-mph on hwy.4.
Slow down!
Remember when they used to arrest people for child endangerment and reckless driving?
RIGHT!!!!
Antioch and Pittsburg / section 8 driver’s slow down!
Right!
They done gone soft on the idiots!!!! Why do you think people now a days think they can or should get away with everything!!!
WHAAAATTTT? Why wasn’t he arrested for child endangerment ? Highway 4, I thought it was going to say Clayton Rd.,
And they let him drive off with those kids??
I’m pretty sure this happens every day on Hwy 4…
and every night on Clayton Road.
At 120 mph with no license or insurance and 2 small kids lets start with 200 hours community service, an additional 200 hrs. at County Morgue, another 100 hrs. each at 4 different trauma emergency rooms. Let ’em see first hand what car wrecks do to a human body.
Then there’s possibility of DA charging child endangerment.
Nothing new. Highway 4 is the Autobahn of the Bay Area. I challenge anyone to travel between Hercules and Antioch and not see multiple clowns speeding at well over 100 mph and veering in and out of traffic.
Autobahn for bay scum!
These days driving on Highway 4, with children in the car, at ANY speed constitutes child endangerment.
Throw the damn book at them !
No books! Libraries must be converted to covid testing centers.
Martinmike thanks for the laugh.
@Martinezmike
Lol. Good one.
…not to mention, the world’s largest paperclip.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of wrecks on highway 4. Is also a lot of shootings on highway 4. I always thought it had to do with the irresponsible scum that seemed to travel that freeway. Sorry but just saying.
Remember the days when you had no license or insurance they couldn’t let you drive away? They’d have to call someone to pick you up and they’d impound the car.
And why aren’t they arrested?
not allowed to arrest illegals
That person needs to have some jail or roadside pickup time, for child endangerment, and endangerment to the other drivers on the road, really feel sorry for the kids, who could have been killed or worse survive and have their physical well being destroyed for life
Now that’s a paperclip!!!
Clearly, these people know the CHP will no longer arrest high speed violators. Good job Newsom.
Traffic laws are not so important now. If you want to be safe, wear a mask!😷
Forget the mask. Wear a crash helmet and four-point harness!
At what point is it considered reckless driving and child endangerment?
add child endangerment to the list!
Highway 4? Incredibly un-surprised 😐
Way to CHP. Hope the first one got the kids taken away and the second never gets another car.
Only 12O MPH?
#ForzaFerrari
His body
His kids
His car
Why should the government be telling him he can’t speed.
If you are afraid of people driving that fast – stay off the roads.
Funny how people who tell us this about Covid (their body, their family, stay home if your afraid) look at the above and would never agree with it.
Someone else’s body
Someone else’s kids
Someone else’s car
All of the above could have been affected.
If you are driving that fast, go to a place where you will not endanger others. Not a state highway.
TPC- AGREED
@Rob, you are the poster child for the Me Me generation. You live in a big disposable world. Crashed my car, buy a new one. So what if I hit you and wrecked your car, and I don’t have insurance. That’s your problem.
There’s a huge difference between the sniffles and a half ton of steel barreling at you at 120mph. Get real, Rob. You lefties are willing to muzzle an entire nation and destroy our economy if it will get the greatest president since Andrew Jackson out of office aren’t you?
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
It’s a daily occurrence on Hwy 4 !
They need to be out there every single day of the week, the folks driving out there are nuts!
A car speed limiter or governor is a must for these two morons…Plus impound and a 4 figure fine. Make it hurt!
Yes. Put the Governor in the car with them! 🤗
Martinezmike, killin’ it with your comments! 😂
Uhh, no. The first one had no driver license. They are both a danger to everyone around them. And how does a governor help if you impound the car after you install it?
Did the driver just get a ticket or arrested?
CHP should keep the vehicles. Saw an article said if you are doing under 80 on HWY4 they won’t even look at you because the speed others are going
Why are they just ticketed and not hauled off to jail or car impounded. They don’t seem to care about the ticket much
Not surprised ..But my goodness, with kids in the car should have a hefty fine . I’m not on HWY 4 daily, but always lots of speeding.
I hope they towed his car away, gave the small children a ride home and put the driver in the jail.
Sounds to me like a clear cut case of child endangerment.
I bet their residents of Antioch and Pittsburg.
Why isn’t that child endangerment?
The shuttle back and forth from Oakland to Pittsburg.
The driver should of been arrested and the kids sent to protected services.
Only a Ticket? What about reckless endangerment of a child, 2 count? There are probably other things they could charge them with.
The police have to be careful who they arrest or they will be called racists.
Now would be a good time to treat everyone equally 😉
Now would be a good time to treat law-abiding citizens as law-abiding citizens…and to punish the lawless.
A ticket?. You mean they let them drive away? Remove the children and take the vehicle.
Parent should also get a ticket and pay the fine as well. They will be behind the wheel tomorrow.
just another example of the lunacy that is California.
How do you ticket someone who has no license? I hear that Americans get their cars towed and are arrested for 90+.
GD left/progressives no border no history low lifes destroying America.
Impound the car, arrest the driver on reckless driving, and have CPS take the kids. Obviously the parent has no capacity to take on the responsibilities of caring for a child, let alone two.
I remember when Highway 4 used to be called Blood Alley. You had to put your headlights on. That driver should have been arrested and those children taken into protective custody. They don’t have a chance.
I agree wholeheartedly! Seems a crime in it’s self to let a person go who is clearly endangering the lives of 2 innocent children.
Walnut Creek oldtimer, from Port Chicago highway there was a loop around tunnel onto 4, that sent you directly into 65 mile per hour traffic. In the winter with the fog I would floor my old ford fairlane going through the tunnel and pray.
It used to be 100+ drivers were arrested on the spot, hauled in and and cited, and vehicle towed from the scene. Nowadays jails are already full and misdemeanors are downgraded to citations and released on their own recognizance, never to be seen again until their next encounter.
Criminal drivers don’t even have to pay fines, these days, here in commy criminal friendly California.
How can the jails be full after all those releases?
There’s a plain white CHP car that’s been writing tickets everyday on Hwy 4
Doing a good business out there!
Last week a Mustang GT flew up behind me and passed me with inches to spare… but he didn’t notice the CHP SUV on the shoulder w/radar gun!
LoL ! He got nailed …. he had to be going 90+ I hope he got a reckless driving charge too.
I see a CPS visit in someone’s future.
HOPEFULLY
Most tires are not rated over 99 MPH. That is the letter on the list of numbers and letter embossed on a tire. If one drives over that speed the tire can fail, i.e. fall apart. It’s too bad the school budgets have been cut so bad they can’t even talk about drivers ed. It could save some lives.
Teach your children because the schools won’t.
Thats actually the temperature rating, meant more for cornering.
Tires rated ZR are designed for speeds over 189 MPH. On high performance cars that are capable of high speeds, it’s illegal to install a tire that’s not rated ZR.
I’ve got tires on one of my cars that are rated for 186 MPH. I got them at Costco BTW. My car won’t go that fast, but they really improve the handling.
@Doh
Right? No one teaches kids to drive anymore. My pet peeve is tailgaters/crowders who get into huge pile-on wrecks and then say it was no one’s fault because there was no room to maneuver.
Was the driver allowed to drive off after the stop? No license? No insurance? Children in car whose lives were endangered, Hope they impounded the car and alerted child protection. So irresponsible to put so many others lives at risk. Should be held accountable.
Judge Caprio would show compassion to them.
I constantly watch my rear view mirror when on Highway 4. I usually stay out of the way in the right lane. If I see a speeder/weaver coming up behind, I sidle up to the car next to me a create a mobile roadblock. I don’t want them weaving in front of me.
Bernie / that maneuver isn’t smart. It’s safer to take a defensive stance (get put of the way – don’t box offenders).
Certainly with no license or insurance the person wasn’t given a ticket and allowed to carry on. We must not have received the whole story. The person must have been arrested.
in this state, bleeding hear judges will always let illegal aliens off.
and don’t call me Certianly…
Nowadays, after being cited for driving recklessly with two small children, neither a DL nor insurance, does the driver just get to start up the car and be off on their merry way?
People do exactly what they want! This trend is getting worse too!
So why even tell us this? So we can all be pissed that the jerk was not hauled off to jail???????? Should have been arrested … no ifs, ands, or buts about it!
Maybe it’s time to treat cars like they treat guns…with a host of regulations:
No engine over 1 liter displacement. Horse power limited to 100, naturally aspirated. 0-60mph time limited to 10 seconds, maximum speed limited to 60MPH. 10 day wait period on any car purchase, full background check for obtainment of a driver’s license…etc etc…
Good idea, but it will never happen. Politicians will make sure of that, since they get paid off and bribed(political contributions) by the big auto makers.
A utopian dream for the liberals/progressives/Marxists/Socialists.
So,….it’s scooters and golfcarts for everyone?
Awesome! Go faster!
Hwy 4 has been a notoriously dangerous speedway for yrs. l’m sure this driver learned nothing from this episode. What kids, other drivers lives,etc. Too many people as a whole have a savage mentality these days. There is little to no repercussions for this behavior sadly, so no expectation of change.
Bless those officers out there dealing with these animals.
Agree with you Clifton. More of these pictures on news stories these days than ever. Obviously something changed and the officers can not arrest and they are just as disgusted, frustrated as those on here voicing opinions. With no license or insurance on top of flagrant disregard this person obviously can not be bothered by her children’s or anyone else safety. She would have barreled over any of us.
Phone calls to two separate agencies should have been made, first, Child Protective Services, and the kids are taken away – second to a tow truck and the vehicle is impounded. Let family retrieve the children, which puts those kids on the radar for being with an adult that has no regard for their welfare. As for the car, if the impound fees can’t be paid, sell the car to pay the fees. Consequences can be a harsh reality, but then we don’t hold people accountable for their actions anymore; things will not change or improve until we do, so the garbage continues.
There is a nice impound yard down in Fresno. Yes it will cost more, but they will have time for reflection on the three hour bus ride to retrieve their car and pay their fees.
These losers gave no respect for themselves let alone for anyone else.
I drive Hwy 4 a lot and am disguisted by the lack of attention these racers have. Nothing is so important that requires they drive like total a__ holes.
Throw the book at them and take their vehicle and put them in jail legal or illegal. You break the law you do the time and pay the big fine. If you get sick while in jail well just desserts for endangering everyone on the road.
BTW, to the 2 young male fools racing down Treat Blvd on Thursday morning around 7:15 AM in the white and black cars going over 80 MPH weaving in and out of traffic shame on you. If you kill someone that would be horrible. If you want to kill yourself do it some other way and leave the rest of us safe.
Had an employee drive too fast/reckless with his son on the back of his motorcycle. He wasn’t amused when he was charged with reckless driving AND child endangerment, had to wear an ankle “bracelet” (which he had to pay for) and had his insurance rates go up.
Sorry, everybody. I thought the speedo registered in kilometers. I was wondering why everybody was going so slow.
In the middle of evening commute a group of us was passed on the inside shoulder of hwy 4 near bay point. He had to be going 90. He lost control shot across the lanes of traffic and knocked a Honda prelude under a big rig trailer that dragged it for half a mile. His truck overturned about 3 times sending tools flying at our windshields. We wanted frontier justice, believe me. He got some medical attention, a citation, and a call for a tow truck. We got cracked windshields, and 90 minutes of giving police statements that probably did nothing… Hwy 4 is Nascar race end to end….
Is stereotyping free speech?
hwy 4 drivers are reckless but skilled !
680 drivers are insured, so who cares.
580 drivers are serial killers & have weapons.
and always mind your P’s & Q’s.
License or no license, what’s the difference? Everyday I see a moron (or two) do really stupid things while behind the wheel. Just today, on my lunch break, as I was walking to the store, traffic was preparing to stop for a red light. The dude in the Corvette, in the middle lane was stopping, but the “$_it-bag” behind him, in a late-model “crap-box”, went around, cutting the cars off in the right lane, just to run through the (obvious) red light. Sure, that driver doing 120mph on the highway without a license, and with kids in the car is an a$$_ole, but so are the licensed / insured dumb-a$$ drivers that take unnecessary risks around town for no apparent reason. All it takes is a red-light runner hitting a car with children inside.
What? Ticketed! Hell no, that should be jail! What is going on? Have rules just been thrown out?
maybe our elected officials need to answer that at the ballot box.