Speed Traps May Be Illegal, But You Can Still Get A Ticket From One!

One thing all of the 50 United States have in common is speed traps

. These are places where law enforcement have made a reputation for handing out an unusually large number of traffic tickets.

There are common areas for speed traps. They can be in areas where there are bends in the road, stretches of road where the speed limit changes often, or where it might be difficult to see the posted speed limit.

Speed traps are also found in small towns and cities, usually near a major highway where travelers are unlikely to return to challenge a speeding ticket. Another way that police manipulate the roads to catch unsuspecting drivers in speed traps are on long stretches of highway. They'll take two distinct markers on the road and measure the distance between them.

The way they do this is by knowing how long it takes to drive the distance between the two points they have chosen doing the posted speed limit. Once they have that information its a simple mathematical formula to gauge your speed. If you were speeding they will radio the speed, make, model and color of your car to an officer waiting down the road. That officer will pull you over and serve the citation.

The legality of the whole thing has been debated for years. Politicians and police officers alike have always supported controversial means to ticket drivers by preaching to us that it 'saves lives'. We all know the real reason is to greatly increase revenue.

The truth is, using deceptive means such as speed traps is unethical. Not to mention illegal. But law enforcement gets away with it all the time. Deceptive practices of writing traffic violations is quite literally worth billions of dollars yearly in America.

Next time you go on a long trip, do a little research ahead of time to find out where likely speed traps might be along your route. As they say, an ounce of prevention is worth many hundreds of dollars in cure by avoiding speeding tickets.

by: Steven Swihart

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