Calderwood, Tennessee Speed Traps
US129 "The Dragon" at Deals Gap in Blount County
11,400% increase in traffic tickets for bikers. Tickets for all vehicles have increased in Blount County on the Dragon, except for tractor trailers which are immune from prosecution while blocking both lanes in every blind corner.
Hard to shoot radar with 318 curves in 11 miles of forest and mountains, so troopers just make up a speed without using radar. One trooper was ordered arrested by a Blount County judge for perjury re his lack of use of radar.
The death rate has tripled since the police state crackdown on bikers and sports car owners in Blount County, with up to 18 cops per 11 miles, but no ambulance nor first aid responders.
Dragon tickets cost up to $800 with vehicle impoundments for license tag violations, with arrest of bikers who don’t stop for bogus speed traps of cops running out in the road endangering oncoming traffic.
In comparison statewide, THP speeding tickets have dropped by 50% since 1999.
TN Highway Patrol (THP) Activity – Citations by County 1999-2008.
http://www.tn.gov/safety/stats/THP_Activity/default.html
Undercover police video profiling bikers on the Dragon
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9061594534302727021&hl=en#
Undercover citizen video of police state on the Dragon