Western Pennsylvania police demonstrate ENRADD

[StlouisX50]

Western Pennsylvania police demonstrate device to catch speeders

[kpatz]

Rutter and several fellow officers set up the device on Morgantown Street in Uniontown. Most vehicles routinely were tracked at 15 mph over the posted 35 mph speed limit, they said.

Ok... so that means either the vast majority of drivers on that road are reckless dangerous lunatics, or perhaps that speed limit should be 50 instead of 35... whattya think?

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This device has some serious design shortcomings. See story and video if you google "Team 4 Investigates Speed Traps".

thepittsburghchannel.com/news/22910814/detail.html

It also violates the Pennsylvania Code to calibrate for 3' spacing instead of 5' spacing, but they seem to use 3' anyway and no one is stopping them.

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I like this one:

"History has shown that the more police patrols, the less crashes there are," Ofsanik said. "And of those crashes, they are less serious."

So yeah, hide more officers by doing speed traps and make sure you put up automated ticketing machines.

[Akosikojak]

]Ok... so that means either the vast majority of drivers on that road are reckless dangerous lunatics, or perhaps that speed limit should be 50 instead of 35... whattya think?

Would agree with ya when ya run the percentages on the amount of people running >the PSL.

"Speed doesn't always factor into the cause of an accident," said spokesman Jay Ofsanik. "But it always factors into the severity of one."

Well noted Captain Obvious.

Rutter and several fellow officers set up the device on Morgantown Street in Uniontown. Most vehicles routinely were tracked at 15 mph over the posted 35 mph speed limit, they said.

"History has shown that the more police patrols, the less crashes there are," Ofsanik said. "And of those crashes, they are less serious."

So if I'm reading this right, he's saying that speeding (and speeding alone) is what's causing a percentage of accidents. Now if he said speeding combined w/another dumb behavior was causing a certain percentage of accidents that might be more believable for me.