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unusual facts about speed trap



Coburg, Oregon

Coburg's city government had generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for its budget through speeding fines at a speed trap on Interstate 5 located outside of city limits.

Ludowici, Georgia

The AAA went so far as to specifically label Ludowici as a speed trap.


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Randolph, Missouri

In 2010, Randolph was cited by Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee for violating the state's speed trap law, by funding over 73% of the city budget from traffic violations.

The Automobile Association

In 1910 in a legal test case ('Betts -v- Stevens') involving an AA patrolman and a potentially speeding motorist, the Chief Justice, Lord Alverston, ruled that where a patrolman signals to a speeding driver to slow down and thereby avoid a speed-trap, then that person would have committed the offence of 'obstructing an officer in the course of his duty' under the Prevention of Crimes Amendment Act 1885.