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December 15, 2011
Engineers who examined the blackened Paramount Boulevard overpass on State Highway 60 determined that the eastern lanes must be torn down immediately, California Highway Patrol ...

Calif. official: 25 people were hurt in bus crash
February 10, 2012
The California Highway Patrol was still investigating Monday and gave no new information on the condition of the passengers. The bus is owned by Inland Empire Stages. The...

Meteor shower watcher drives off cliff
December 23, 2011
The California Highway Patrol said a helicopter search team rescued the man, who was able to walk away with minor injuries. The best time for viewing the Geminid meteor shower,...

Calif. tanker fire will force freeway demolition
December 15, 2011
'' We could not warn people about this because it was an accident,'' California Highway Patrol Officer Luis Mendoza said of the tanker fire. The cause of the fire remained...

Toyota Prius in California runaway road drama
March 09, 2010
accord, the California Highway Patrol ... The latest incident in California was a chilling echo of the incident last August where off-duty California Highway Patrol Officer Mark...

Major Calif. highway reopens after storm shutdown
March 21, 2011
A California Highway Patrol dispatcher says officers began escorting motorists through the Grapevine pass on Interstate 5 pass at around 8 a.m. A spring storm that roared into...

Armed, masked man waving U. S. flag shuts down highway in Southern California
February 14, 2012
The California Highway Patrol says traffic is backed up for kilometres in both directions. Duarte says responding officers spotted the gunman and immediately cleared the area. A...

Vintage Camaro stolen from US East Coast in 1975 recovered in California
May 12, 2011
But Keith Williams tells KSBY-TV he contacted the California Highway Patrol after certain features of the car did not match the model. Police discovered the vehicle was stolen...

California Highway Patrol Videos

Motorcycle Safety Awareness
May 15, 2012 | KGPE CBS 47 Fresno

Search Continues For Suspects Who Shot CHP Officer
May 08, 2012 | KERO ABC Bakersfield 2

Overnight fatal crash west of Fresno
May 04, 2012 | KGPE CBS 47 Fresno

Report Drunk Drivers
April 27, 2012 | KGPE CBS 47 Fresno

Family Identifies Young Man Killed In I-5 Rollover Crash
April 23, 2012 | KGTV ABC San Diego

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The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a law enforcement agency of the U.S. state of California. The CHP has patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and also acts as the state police. The California State Legislature created the California Highway Patrol as a section of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Public Works, with legislation signed by Governor C. C. Young on August 14, 1929. Governor Earl Warren made it a separate Department in 1947. The CHP gradually assumed greater responsibility beyond the enforcement of the State Vehicle Act and eventually merged with the...

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