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7 unusual facts about California Highway Patrol


Every 15 Minutes

In recent years, the California Highway Patrol has continued to fine-tune the Every 15 Minutes program, which has always been over two-days - day one being the crash, with day two as the assembly, featuring speakers ranging from the student participants and their parents to motivational speakers, relatives who have lost loved ones in drink-driving crashes (there are no drink-driving "accidents"), medical personnel, lawyers and law enforcement officials.

I Never Said Goodbye

"Privacy" was inspired by several run-ins that Hagar had with the California Highway Patrol while driving in his car with black-tinted windows.

Josh Pinkard

On May 18, 2007, Pinkard was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence by the California Highway Patrol.

Michael D. Duvall

During his time in the Assembly, he served as the vice chairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee, which monitored the operations of the California Department of Transportation, Department of Motor Vehicles, and California Highway Patrol.

Paul Genge

Other film roles include that of a payoff man in The Outfit (1973), a California Highway Patrol officer in 1967's Hot Rods to Hell, Whitey, a communist suspect in The FBI Story (1959) and Lieutenant Hagerman in North By Northwest (1959).

Paul Linke

Paul Linke (born May 6, 1948) is an American actor, known for his role as Officer Arthur "Artie" Grossman in CHiPs, a television series about the motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol.

Young Corbett III

Beside the boxing career, he was a physical education teacher for the California Highway Patrol and a grape grower.


Kyburz, California

Ski racer Spider Sabich grew up in Kyburz, where his father Vladimir, Sr., was stationed with the California Highway Patrol.

Los Peñasquitos Creek Arch Bridge

In 1995, the new bridge was renamed the Cara Knott Memorial Bridge after 20-year-old Cara Knott, a San Diego State University student who was stopped and then subsequently murdered by California Highway Patrol officer Craig Peyer near the bridge on the night of December 27, 1986.


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Mettler, California

On September 30, 1955, motion picture actor James Dean was driving north on California State Highway 99 when he was stopped by California Highway Patrol officer O.V. Hunter and given a ticket for speeding.