Fair Warning - Welcome to the Racine HOG Rally!

[eprenzlow]

Racine gears up for H.O.G. Rally

Racine police will be putting a $7,500 state grant to work when they deploy several additional traffic enforcement squads for this weekend's H.O.G. Rally.

Activities are scheduled at Festival Hall and nearby parking lots today through Sunday.

Event organizers anticipate that at least 5,000 state chapter members will attend the festivities. For more information on the event, go to http://www.wistatehogrally.com.

The state Bureau of Transportation Safety provided Racine police with grant money in making motorcycle crash reduction a priority, according to Racine police. Additional squads will work in the downtown area, near the festival site and along the corridors to and from the event.

The Racine County Sheriff's Department and the Mount Pleasant Police Department also received grant funds for the event.

Racine police note that as the number of motorcycle registrations continues to increase annually, the state is targeting the enforcement of contributing crash factors in an aim to reduce fatality rates.

In 2005, alcohol and/or speed was listed as the primary contributing factor in 38% of all single vehicle motorcycle crashes in Wisconsin. When a fatality was involved, alcohol or speed was the primary contributing factor 64% of the time, according to police.

[14-O]

Sounds like they're gonna have more cops percapita to prevent bike deaths in Racine than they have to prevent car deaths in the rest of the state! Guess car deaths are more PC. Friggin cheese heads.

[VDeuce]

It has nothing to do with savings lives - that's just bullshit they try to tell the populous who are all too willing to believe what they hear through the media.

It's ALL about making money.

The police business.

[jkane]

First, $7,500 is pocket change! What did it buy?

Anyhow, the reason I am responding is to say I didn't see a single biker pulled over. I saw quite a few 4 wheeled vehicles along side the road in front of flashing lights. But no bikes! So this wasn't such a bad thing.

[Pikeslayer]

So do they have to give the grant money back since no bikes were pulled over?

[eprenzlow]

Originally Posted by Pikeslayer

So do they have to give the grant money back since no bikes were pulled over?

Nope - but Dunkin' Donuts stock went up . . .