Dan Abel wrote:
>
> Sounds reasonable. I'm a little confused by this whole thing, and have
> been waiting for somebody to post a URL with the facts. What's this
> "berm" thing? The California Driver Handbook does not have the word in
> it. My dictionary does, but I have trouble relating those definitions
> to a major freeway in Southern California.

Someone posted the wording in the actual report. It used the word
shoulder. It looks like someone not familiar with LA metro roads
switched the word shoulder for the word berm thinking they were the
same. They are the same for a lot of country highways. They are not
the same for freeways in LA metro.

The description sounds like the policeman was standing at the passenger
window of a car on the right shoulder or maybe at the driver window of a
car on the left shoulder. Some idiot went around driving on the
shoulder and didn't see the policeman until he got slammed. In LA metro
there's often some idiot driving on the shoulder getting into trouble.
The shoulder is for cars stopped for tickets, mechanical problems and
such.