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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Blitz to enforce Oregon’s child seat safety law in effect through Sunday, Feb. 17
Through Sunday, Feb.
17, Oregon law enforcement
agencies are keeping a keen
eye out to help ensure that
motorists are correctly buck-
ling up – themselves and their
passengers.
Since Oregon’s child seat
laws changed July 1, 2007,
the emphasis will be on mak-
ing sure that child passengers
are buckled in correctly.
“We’re taking this op-
portunity to educate people
about the child seat laws and
remind them to buckle up
every person, every trip,” said
Carla Levinski, manager of
the Oregon Dept. of Trans-
portation’s Occupant Protec-
tion Program.
Lack of safety belt use
was a major factor in half of
Oregon’s traffic deaths during
2007. More than a third of
children injured in crashes
were unrestrained, held on
laps or using adult belt sys-
tems instead of appropriate
child seats.
The enforcement blitz is a
federally funded program ad-
One hurt in collision on bridge
A head-on collision with
one driver suffering injuries
occurred on an icy “first
bridge” near milepost 29 on
the south side of Cave Junc-
tion Friday, Feb. 1.
Reported injured in the
crash, called in at 8:05 a.m.,
was Cave Junction resident
Gilbert E. Van Tassell, 38,
said Oregon State Police.
His Chevrolet Malibu
and a Toyota pickup truck
driven by CJ resident Justin
Mason, 17, were involved.
OSP said that the northbound
pickup driver slid and veered
Friday, Jan. 25
*On White Schoolhouse
Road a man said that his
daughter had been hitting
him, he needed her to leave,
and stop hitting him.
*An entire set of tree-
cutting accouterments -- saw,
gasoline, sharpening kit and
chaps -- was reported stolen
from a locked vehicle on
Waldo Road.
*Several cars were re-
portedly broken into and
damaged in the 600 block of
Eight Dollar Mountain Road.
Mental giants obviously were
responsible.
*“Possibly mental,” a
man was reported walking on
the middle of Rockydale
Road in the 1700 block,
where he was almost struck
by a motorist.
*When retrieving a vehi-
cle stored at a Hogue Drive
residence a woman noted that
it had been damaged. Some
people on-scene blamed her,
and a verbal disturbance en-
sued. She said that they
kicked her vehicle, damaging
it further, before she drove
away.
*Following an altercation
on White Schoolhouse Road
reported around 8 p.m., a
caller wanted her daughter’s
welfare ascertained, but she
didn’t want her to return
home. After a call to the
Women’s Crisis Center, a
room for the daughter was
arranged at the Junction Inn.
*A valley woman, 50,
was taken to Three Rivers
Community Hospital in
Grants Pass on a peace offi-
cer’s mental hold following
her father’s report of abuse
and threats.
*An intoxicated person
was said to be responsible for
phoning 911 from the 400
block of Daisy Hill Road at
8:46 p.m., but that person was
no longer around when a dep-
uty arrived.
*Rex Alan Denham, 30,
was cited on a charges of
driving under the influence of
an intoxicant (DUII) and fail-
ure to maintain lane on Laurel
Road at 9:43 p.m. Denham’s
reported blood-alcohol con-
test was .19. His vehicle was
impounded.
Saturday, Jan. 26
*A Selma couple said
that a man, who claimed to be
a hit man for the Mafia, was
demanding money and TV
tubes as payment for his
work. The man, described as
“mentally ill,” had not
worked for the couple in
years, they said.
*Some four or five gun-
shots were heard in Down-
town Cave Junction at 8:10
p.m.
onto the lane for southbound
traffic. Illinois Valley Fire
District responded, and
forced open the driver’s-side
door of the Malibu to remove
the driver.
Van Tassell was taken by
American Medical Response
ambulance to Three Rivers
Community Hospital in
Grants Pass. He was treated
and released, said OSP.
He also was cited on a
charge of driving while sus-
pended, OSP reported.
Both vehicles were
towed from the scene. Traffic
was temporarily hampered.
*Following a traffic stop
on Redwood Hwy. in CJ,
during which he was warned
for defective head and tail
lights, David Wayne Sheldon,
22, was lodged in Josephine
County Jail on a warrant from
Ashland Police Dept. charg-
ing failure to appear (FTA)
on a charge of possession of a
controlled substance (PCS).
*ODOT was advised that
a large amount of trash was
littering Redwood Hwy. near
the Selma weigh station and
that it needed to be cleaned
up.
Sunday, Jan. 27
*Debris was removed
from the roadway and dam-
age to a city bench noted in
Downtown CJ at 1:23 a.m.
*On Redwood Hwy. at
milepost 26, Robert Scott
Smilo, 50, was cited on a
charge of DUII. His vehicle
was impounded.
*An intoxicated man was
found asleep in a vehicle with
its engine running in Selma at
1:41 a.m. He was advised to
not drive until he was sober.
*While chasing his run-
away son through the woods
on Walters Road, a man said
that someone started shooting
at him. He wasn’t sure where
the gunshots were coming
from.
*When located in Selma,
a runaway boy was taken into
protective custody.
*Colin Alexander Flynn,
23, was cited on a charge of
driving with a suspended li-
cense (DWS) and warned for
a defective headlight on Red-
wood Hwy. at Gold Canyon
Drive at 6:41 p.m.
*On Norman Road a
man said that his neighbor
was yelling and screaming at
8:35 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 28
*A Cave Junction mother
was advised to retrieve her
son, who’d been picked up by
Del Norte County Sheriff’s
Office.
*A Kerby driver reported
damage to her vehicle caused
by rock-throwing youngsters.
*A valley resident re-
ported that his 68-year-old
father had been missing since
traveling to California for a
medical appointment. The
missing man was located in
Humboldt County Jail.
ministered by ODOT’s Trans-
portation Safety Division. The
effort is through the Oregon
State Sheriffs Association,
Oregon Association Chiefs of
Police and Oregon State Po-
lice Patrol Division, involving
27 sheriff offices, 63 police
departments and OSP.
“Consistent, proper safety
belt use is the single most ef-
fective way to protect people
and reduce fatalities in motor
vehicle crashes,” said Capt.
Gerry Gregg, director of OSP
Patrol Services Division.
Oregon’s new child seat
laws established the follow-
ing requirements:
*A child weighing less
than 40 pounds must be re-
strained in a child safety seat.
*A child under 1 year of
age or weighing less than 20
pounds must be restrained in
a rear-facing child seat.
*A child of more than 40
pounds but under age 8 or less
than 4’9” in height must be
restrained in a booster seat that
elevates them so that the lap/
shoulder belts fit correctly.
Additionally, Oregon’s
safety belt law no longer ex-
empts commercial vehicles
“designed or used to transport
property.” Drivers and pas-
sengers in this category are
now required to use proper
safety restraints. This affects
all types of trucks, vans, and
passenger cars, including
checkup stations have helped
get the message across that
using safety belts and child
safety seats is critical to safe
travel,” Levinski said.
“Continued education and
enforcement are needed to
maintain our high belt use and
improve compliance, particu-
larly with Oregon’s booster
law, currently at 62 percent.
“To facilitate compliance
with car seat laws and im-
prove child passenger safety,
ODOT has allocated
$200,000 to provide car seats
and boosters for low-income
families this year.”
ODOT will distribute
funds through community
programs.
those used for bulk transport,
specialized delivery services,
or movement of materials in
conjunction with various pro-
jects or activities.
Since passage of the
adult belt law in 1990, state-
wide crash fatality and injury
rates in Oregon each have
dropped 43 percent. During
‘07, Oregon belt usage went
up to an all-time high of 95
percent (front seat occupants)
and 97 percent (all seating),
placing Oregon among
the top five belt-use states.
The nationwide belt use aver-
age for front seat
occupants is 80 percent.
“Active enforcement
practices and child seat
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*Joseph Anthony Mazza,
20, was cited on a charge of
DWS and warned for failure
to signal a turn on Millie
Street at 7:40 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 29
*He’d been talking to his
girlfriend on her cell phone
when she said, “Oh, my
God,” and the line went dead,
reported a concerned caller,
who asked that deputies look
for a possible motor vehicle
accident somewhere between
O’Brien and Cave Junction.
The woman was located at
the home of a friend, who had
pulled her out of the situation,
whatever it was.
Wednesday, Jan. 30
*A teen-aged friend of
her daughter’s continues to
harass her family, a rural
Cave Junction mother said.
She wanted to obtain a stalk-
ing order against the boy.
*Kenneth Robert Vine-
yard, 31, was cited on charges
of DWS and driving without
insurance on Caves Hwy. at
7:47 p.m.
*Frolicsome (that’s one
description) youngsters in a
small silver pickup truck
were seen throwing snow-
balls at windows on W.
Palmer Street at 9:30 p.m.
*Eric E. Johnson, 27,
was cited on a charge of driv-
ing without insurance and
warned for speeding in the
1100 block of Caves Hwy. at
11:10 p.m.
*Wendy May Owens,
aka Wendy M. Damm, 21,
was lodged in Josephine
County Jail on warrants charg-
ing failure to appear on
charges
of
PCS/
methamphetamine. Owens
also was cited on charges of
DWS and no insurance.
Thursday, Jan. 31
*Angry with her physi-
cian’s office, a rural Cave
Junction woman stated,
“Fine, I’m just going to kill
myself.” This earned her a
visit from the sheriff himself,
who determined that she
didn’t mean it.
*A mother on Takilma
Road said that while her 10-
year-old daughter and a friend
were playing outside around
3 p.m., a man in a light-blue
four-door vehicle pulled up to
the fenceline and tried to
wave the girls over to him.
They ran home.
*Six gunshots were
heard in the vicinity of
Schumacher and W. Lister
streets.
*Robert Calvin, 35, was
cited on charges of DWS and
failure to carry insurance on
N. Redwood Hwy. at Lister
Street at 8:38 p.m.
*A deputy tried to take a
runaway girl into custody at a
residence in Kerby, but after
getting through a locked gate,
the deputy found that no one
would answer the door.
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