Notre Dame High student Conor Lynch, seen above in a family photo, was struck and killed by an SUV about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, while on a training run with members of the Sherman Oaks school's cross-country team.

Police issued 67 speeding tickets Thursday morning as officers used laser radar guns to zero in on lead-footed drivers in Sherman Oaks.

One driver clocked 71 mph in the 40 mph zone during the special enforcement operation along a mile-long stretch of Riverside Drive between Fulton and Hazeltine avenues and on Woodman Avenue near Notre Dame High School, police said.

"People use Riverside as an alternate to the 101 (freeway)," said Officer Troy Williams of LAPD's Valley Traffic Division. "And when people are using the street as an alternate, they tend to forget that it's not a freeway. It's something we want to keep our eye on."

One man was killed last year about a mile east of where the operation took place when he lost control of his car and struck a tree as he was going more than 100 mph, Williams said.

A 16-year-old Notre Dame High athlete, Conor Lynch, was killed in October after being hit by an SUV while he was jogging across Woodman Avenue during a cross-country workout.

"We were just there in the area just giving some visible enforcement reminding folks to slow down," said Sgt. Art Gomez. "Streets are dangerous. You make them more dangerous when you're traveling at a high rate of speed."

Twelve officers were on hand to pull drivers over after unsafe speeds were registered on the laser radar, or LIDAR device. The gadget can target a specific vehicle up to 1,000 feet away, as opposed to a radar gun, which covers a broader area and returns speeds of several vehicles simultaneously.

Officers also impounded two vehicles for unlicensed drivers and issued two citations for cars parked in front of fire hydrants, Gomez said.