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...and he investigated and found he had given hundreds of tickets from the same location. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point, but that does not constitute
by mikestew 3y ago
...and he investigated and found he had given hundreds of tickets from the same location.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point, but that does not constitute a speed trap. It very well could be that on that section of road there are just a lot of speeding drivers, and hence hundreds of tickets.
One example of a speed trap is if the speed limit takes a sharp drop without warning. For example, rural road with a 60 mph limit, and it drops to 25 mph at the town limits with no "25 mph ahead" signs, and there sits a cop with a radar gun ten meters after the "25 mph" sign.
- cptskippy 3y agoYou just described every highway or interstate near a town in Georgia.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoThat is the common definition of speed trap, but it's not the one referred to in the quoted law. The definition used there is limited to 2 things: 1) is a section of highway where cops monitor cars entering and exiting, then calculate an average speed to identify people who were driving over the speed limit. Basically, they need to demonstrate instantaneous speed, not average speed, to write a ticket. 2) is a highway segment that hasn't set its speed limit based on an engineering/traffic survey done in the last 5 years, 10 if nothing nearby has changed.