Malibu considering automated speed citation cameras along Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu considering automated speed citation cameras along Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu residents were encouraged Wednesday to review the city’s draft Use Policy and Impact Report tied to its Speed Safety Program, which would install automated speed citation cameras along Pacific Coast Highway.
“‘The success of the Speed Safety Program depends on our community’s support,” Malibu Mayor Marianne Riggins said in a statement. “This is about creating a culture of safety on PCH that protects pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. We’re sending a strong signal that speeding and reckless driving will not be tolerated in Malibu.”
Once adopted by the Malibu City Council, the city would move forward with purchasing and installing up to five automated speed citation cameras and additional speed feedback signs.
State Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, sponsored the legislation that made the program possible. It follows a deadly crash that killed four Pepperdine University students last October, allegedly caused by a speeding motorist on PCH.
The driver, 23 year-old Fraser Michael Bohm of Malibu, was charged in connection with the crash that killed Niamh Rolston, 20; Peyton Stewart, 21; Asha Weir, 21; and Deslyn Williams, 21.
The four were struck as they walked along the shoulder area after getting out of a vehicle in the 45 mph zone, prosecutors said.
Bohm is scheduled to return to the Van Nuys courthouse on July 1 for arraignment on four counts each of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
All four women were seniors at Pepperdine’s Seaver College of Liberal Arts and members of the Alpha Phi sorority. They were set to graduate with Pepperdine’s class of 2024, and subsequently received their degrees posthumously.
The policy draft is viewable at https://malibucity.org/DocumentCenter/View/36034/20250501—Malibu-Use-Policy.
The impact report is available at https://malibucity.org/DocumentCenter/View/36035/20250609—Malibu-Impact-Report.
The documents will remain online for review through July 18.
Questions or comments about the draft and impact report can be submitted to publicsafety@malibucity.org.
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