Speed — and not using a seat belt — kills on one of East Bay’s deadliest highways

“When . . . you see (the dead) ejected, and the seat belt dangling, it’s like, ‘C’mon man!’ “CHP officer Adam Lane says.

The lights are out at Adam Lane’s Bay Area home when the call comes about 11 p.m. from a fellow California Highway Patrol officer on Highway 4. This time of night, Lane says, these calls are rarely good.

California High Patrol officer Adam Lane patrols Highway 4 in Pittsburg, Calif., on Friday, June 30, 2023. “The fatalities are very unfortunate,” said Tim Haile, the executive director of the Contra Costa Transportation Authority. He added that the county has spent about $1.1 billion in highway safety projects over the past decade to a highway that was “at one time one of the most congested and dangerous in the country.”

In less than a minute, a blue Chevrolet roars by in the left lane, weaving from one side of the lane to the other. Lane flips on his red strobe light, hits the gas and executes a series of fast driving maneuvers — moving around other vehicles, speeding up and braking quickly as he lines up behind the Chevy and uses his public speaker to instruct the driver to pull over.

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