OT: Speed Traps

El Toro · Apr 5, 2010

Here's a web site for any speed traps in your area's. Hal
PS: One of the former poster's on the Farmall forum sent me this. He's in NH and took his Navy boot training at the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center which was located just across the river from me. My wife worked there as a civilian. She also worked for the Air Force & Army.

http://www.speedtrap.org/

JimS · Apr 5, 2010

I'm sure I will get beaten up over this, but... I am not sure there is such a thing as a speed trap.

Certainly there are roads where the posted limit seems too slow, or a downhill where the vehicle naturally wants to move over the limit, or an area where the limit was changed with little or no notification. The bottom line is, either you are over the limit or not. I fail to see how the police could entice someone to exceed the limit. Certainly there are forms of entrapment for many sorts of crime, but this one fails me.

Go ahead, swing away at me.

Stuart · Apr 5, 2010

Just mention Rosendale Wisconsin. Huge speed trap. Even people from other states now about that one.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 5, 2010

I'm mostly with you on this one too Jim. I don't see anyone getting a ticket unless they were nine or more over the limit. On the open road I set my cruise for eight over and usually have someone all over my back bumper. I think a rich source of volunteered revenue is going uncollected here.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 5, 2010

On rural stretches of road, I do have a tendancy to exceed the limit occasionally. BUT within city limits, I do my level best to keep "les gendarmes" from feasting at my expense. And folks following me get REAL angry when I'm doing 30 in a 30MPH zone,or 44.5 in a 45 MPH zone, in town...they give me the "Beverly Hillbillies" single-finger wave when they pull out and pass me. But I haven't had a speeding ticket in nearly 20 years, so I must be doing something right.

Let Barney Fife go solve a REAL crime....and let the bullies behind the badge go pick on teenage curfew violators, like they did when I was a teenager.

thurlow · Apr 5, 2010

There are a couple of small towns near here where they'll ticket you for 46 mph in a 45 mph zone. The unwary come over a hill or around a bend; there's a speed limit sign which you can't see until you're right at it. Two hundred feet down the road sits Barney with his radar gun and you're caught. A HUGE part of some of these town's budget is based on ticket revenue. The state even has a formula which says that if a certain percentage of their income is based on ticket-writing, they're operating a speed trap; not sure what happens to them for doing so. In Gallaway, TN, one of the local businesses near the city limit used to have a sheet of plywood out near the road with "SPEED TRAP" spray-painted on it.

Bspauld · Apr 5, 2010

Your right Jim escept for a few instances. I had a small town and was ,what I figured out in the country,the speed limit was posted at 35 and I was coasting down a hill, a cop was hidden from view and (my own fault I suppose) and right beside him was a sign posted 25,I got a ticket.for coasting

Bspauld · Apr 5, 2010

Also I got an email that said our Governor of Michigan made it a law that anyone going 56 or faster in a 55 speed zone was to get a ticket.I sent it back that she didnt make that law,it has been in effect for many many years

Kruse · Apr 5, 2010

I live in a county that has a main highway that is posted 65 mph and a few "off the beaten path" highways that have a 60 mph speed limit. But there still another 10 mile stretch of highway that is still posted at 55 mph. Nobody is really sure why it this low because it's not a rough or narrow highway by any means. Maybe because it has a few more hills, I'm not sure.
This 10 mile stretch is thick with the police cars and they pick on the non-locals who don't have a clue what they speed limit is.
While the 55 mph signs are there, (barely, if you look real hard) this section would be called a speed trap if there ever was one.

slim · Apr 5, 2010

I looked at the ones listed for my area. The police do in fact write a lot of tickets at these locations but I really have found that they are quite lenient. They don't issue tickets unless you are going at least 10 over the limit. So I really wouldn't call them speed traps.

There was one about an hour or so away from here over in Arkansas. It was a small town and most of its revenue came from speeding tickets. But the State finally shut it down.

Kevin2 · Apr 5, 2010

Looked at my local town and three listed. None of them are speed traps. The complaints are in 25 MPH neighborhoods and downtown city streets and you have to be going 10 over to get pulled over. I have no sympathy for the lunatics going 15 over in a residential neighborhood with curves and tons of cross streets. 40 in a 25? Write 'em up!

RN · Apr 5, 2010

Evanston, Illinois used to have a speed trap in a school zone. Improper signs according to state law and a police officer and a city attorney that would lie to a direct question from the judge. Had to do appeal to judge with proof witheld from initial trial- the exculpatory evidence Judge Bakakis asked for. ticket dismissed and other guy ticketed had his appearance next week turn into a cuss out the city attoney and police officer session after his was dimissed. City attorney upset when officers testimony atickets no longer allowed in judges court- after appeal officer was deJure a incompetent witness, city attorney told to leave court for direct lie to judge. Riding buddy kept license. Madison Wisconsin had a officer that filed false reports also- Johnson. Had to do a written motion on him also with deputies testimony to be subpeonaed for counter official misconduct charge- county attorney didn"t dispute after verbal confirmation with Madison police captain investigating officer and charge dropped. I tend to not believe a lot of police reports in media. RN

ldj · Apr 5, 2010

There is a small town in TX I-35 goes through it. There are no exit or entry ramps in city limit. City cop gets out on I-35 and writes tickets. He can't even get out there or come back without leaving city.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 5, 2010

We have one like that here.. But if they clock you going 5 under the speed limit, there is some charge of "Impeding Traffic" .. Of course, any traffic chrge can be converted over to a city ordinance violaton with no points, but the fine is several hundred dollars higher..

Anonymous-0 · Apr 6, 2010

A number of states have raised the minimum fines for a moving violation dramatically.Basically revenue enhancement. It's not only the speed traps,but whatever the police can now ticket you for. When you get pulled over for 37 in a 35, and you unhook your seat belt to get the paperwork out of the glove box and get nailed $50 for a seatbelt ticket to boot. That's BS

brokenot · Apr 6, 2010

I just read through the three or so pages of alleged "speed traps" for my locale, and they're laughable at best. Most of them have an axe-to-grind attitude about them, which makes me think that the people that posted them got home after receiving a ticket and [i:2e33fce67c]immediately[/i:2e33fce67c] sat down at their computer, (with the bitter taste of a fine still fresh in their mouths),.....and pounded their posts out in a weak attempt at "sticking it to the man".

My wife is a habitual speeder, and has gotten more than her fair share of warnings. She refuses to do the math, because then she would see how ridiculous it is to go 10-15 mph over the limit everywhere. Even short trips across town. She's absolutely convinced that doing so is a huge time-saver. The last time she actually [i:2e33fce67c]was[/i:2e33fce67c] ticketed, she was upset because she wasn't issued yet another "warning".

She got more upset when I casually inquired as to WHY any person needs a "warning".

:wink:

MarkB_MI · Apr 6, 2010

Well, I took a look at it, and it's not particularly useful information. It seems that anyone who has ever had a ticket anywhere has posted that location as a "speed trap". I took a look at Warren, Michigan, because there are a couple of locations that could properly be called speed traps. According to your site, Warren has over 70 traps! That's about two per square mile, so if this information is accurate, you'd better just drive the speed limit because there's no major street in Warren that isn't a speed trap.

Also, it's obvious that the information is NEVER updated. The worst speed trap in Warren used to be Mound Road between 13 and 14 mile roads. The speed limit dropped from 45 to 30 for no good reason and it was a great source of revenue for the city. The state made them raise the limit a couple of years ago (despite great wailing and gnashing of teeth by the city), but it's still listed multiple times as a trap.

circus · Apr 6, 2010

Easy pickings. Nail out of state drivers. Behind many cars, the cop burned a U turn and passed two cars to get me. Village speed limit extended 1/2 mile beyond the houses and the rural 55 speed sign was within spitting distance. Out of State'ers won't contest but now my insurance rose claiming I'm high risk. Never going to Illinois again. Hope they enjoy spending that $75 fine.

1936 · Apr 6, 2010

Figured the one ticket I paid in a nonspeed trap was not bad for the 1000's of times I have speeded over the past 50 years several 30 MPH or more over limit on the HWY. The truck I now drive shuts down at 103 MPH. Way too fast! Know several on high risk insurance only for speeding which I agree with.

scot in pa · Apr 8, 2010

There are some towns in Florida on 301, where AAA even paid for billboards warning about their "strict enforcement". Then the towns put up billboards saying that it's a safety thing. I guess that's why they will block the right lane to write a ticket, for safety reasons.

El Toro · Apr 8, 2010

Colonial Heights VA is another place where they have speed traps. I was stopped there for speeding in 1953 when I was in the Army coming home for Christmas from Ft Bragg NC. Guess they needed a present too. Hal

Billy Shafer · Apr 8, 2010

Speedtrap.org is wrong on some towns in Texas. I have been through some of them and they are ghost towns.There is one long speed trap from south Dallas on I45 to Ennis.

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