Are Los Angeles’ traffic and vehicle safety laws in need of an overhaul? Being that the West Coast is America’s car capital, aside from Detroit, one would think not. But for anyone who’s ever had the arduous task of driving in the city’s San Fernando Valley, it’s not hard or far-fetched to imagine just why some folks may actually be walking in LA.

It’s not a terrible idea when one considers how ruthless some of our fair city’s biggest and busiest intersections have become; take it from personal experience, there are motorists in the Valley and throughout LA who flat-out don’t look where they’re supposed to while operating their “toys.”

You wouldn’t think that crossing the Valley streets would be that big of a mission, but our featured story out of the East Central Valley is a reminder that some drivers in “these parts” just shouldn’t be issued a license, and in this case some aren’t. It’s just funny that “El Pollo Loco” happens to be Spanish for, “The Crazy Chicken,” because here it wasn’t so much the “chicken” who was “crazy” as it was an unlicensed driver.

In fact, it was a human–one who may be needing to buy a Metro monthly pass in the near future–who was the object of “craziness” in Van Nuys, California, this last January, as an unnamed motorist at an El Pollo Loco restaurant at the 6600 block of Van Nuys Boulevard crashed into the restaurant’s front, supposedly putting the car in drive by accident instead of reverse.

Still think that Los Angeles is all about girls, surfing and sunshine? Well for the large part it is, but also for the large part there is a degree of silliness that lingers, and as long as botox is better and a teenage romps in a white Ferrari continue to make TMZ news, Los Angeles, with their Pollo Loco crashing tendencies, will continue to be America’s “Mecca” for all things non-sense!