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With Unit 78-12 one minute behind, the Pontiac turned northbound on The Old Road (the old, pre-freeway Highway 99) from Henry Mayo Drive and immediately into the driveway that led into the Standard Gas Station and the parking lot of J’s Coffee Shop. (ssss1) As they pulled into the driveway, Officer Frago trained the white spotlight on the passenger side of the patrol car onto the Pontiac.

Instead of pulling deep into the parking lot, Davis suddenly stopped the red Pontiac, just past the throat of the driveway and about 55 feet short of the gas pump island of the Standard Gas Station. This left Unit 78-8 stuck in the middle of the driveway, a little over one car length behind the Pontiac, with a low (approximately three- to four-foot deep) ditch to either side. (ssss1)

Officers Gore and Frago elected to proceed with the stop from this constrained position and made no attempt to direct the driver of the Pontiac to move the vehicle to another location in the parking lot. The time was just a few seconds before 23:55. As Officer Gore put the transmission of the 1969 Dodge Polara patrol vehicle into “Park,” Unit 78-12 was approaching the northbound Henry Mayo Drive exit, just a minute behind.