Illegal street racing has authorities worried. Not much has seemed to keep the sometimes deadly pastime in check.“[T]estosterone-fuelled egotists,” an Australian newspaper coined persons using public roads as speedways, a phenomenon without borders that has risen at dizzying pace worldwide ever since the first installment of the movie franchise “Fast and Furious,” starring Paul Walker, in 2001.
In Los Angeles, police agencies have long agreed that illegal street racing is “a growing epidemic.” Ugly twists and turns became even uglier in recent months. An unsettling weekend in Los Angeles in late February saw four people die in two separate accidents.
All's quiet at an overpass to Dreamworks Studios, in Glendale, Calif., which nearby residents informally dub "the Dreamworks Flyby" for a history of occasional speeding up the ramp to the studio or onto Fairmont Avenue (foreground) in Glendale, where police abatement patrols seem to have had a positive effect. Timothy Wahl
