Lexington, Illinois Speed Traps

A squad or motor cycle unit sits in the median (some times as many as 4), when south bound I-55 crosses the Sugar Creek Bridge they are targeted.

Have watched one unit hand out over 10 tickets in 1 hour. Goes on from sunrise to after sunset.

State must make $100,000 a month here.

Police are always around Lexington-Chenoa area on I-55. I’ve seen it before where they sit ontop of the bridge over I-55 with one cop (you can only see the top of his window over the guard rail) and then radio to cops on the highway to pull people over.

I’ve seen as many as 5-6 cops here at one time.

Several chase cars radar car on bridge hidden behind rail can’t be seen because of curve in highway until its too late.

A single squad State Police squad car will sit atop one of the three overpasses near Lexington. At the Lexington exit, multiple squad cars lie in wait to pull over drivers identified by the spotter. Motorcycle police also frequent the emergency lane and emergency U turns using Lidar. Most active on Friday – Sunday.

It was Sunny day. me and couple of my friends were goin to springfield from chicago. we were going about 80mph there was other 3 cars going about the same speed. soon as we passed a lexington bridge. 3 troops were waiting for us and one trooper sitting at the bridge cloaking cars with LIDAR. all 3 cars got pulled over $75 fine. it was around 9am. carefull