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Sheriff's captain outlines crash trends in Laguna Woods, highlights motor-deputy enforcement and a small state grant
Summary
Captain Cruz Alday told the Laguna Woods City Council the sheriff's office recorded injury collisions and one fatality in both 2022 and 2023, described stepped-up motor-deputy enforcement and a $4,000 selective traffic enforcement grant, and said deputies respond to collisions and criminal activity even when many incidents occur on private village streets.
Captain Cruz Alday of the Orange County Sheriff's Department briefed the Laguna Woods City Council on recent traffic collisions and the department's strategy for reducing dangerous driving on the city's busiest corridors.
Alday said the sheriff's office distinguishes non-injury collisions (property damage) from injury collisions and that the department recorded a fatality in both 2022 and 2023. "We will respond to traffic collisions and any criminal activity," he said, adding that when an incident causes injury the department files a police report; for private-property mishaps officers often facilitate the exchange of…
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