Fenton, Louisiana Speed Traps

I just got tagged there today. I have read the most recent 3 or 4 entries and 62 – 63 mph seems to be the game plan. I had slowed before the 50mph sign to 57 or 58, yet the ticket was written for 62. Most tickets increase in price considerably after 10mph over the limit. A town of 800, including cats and dogs, and they have heavy duty illegally window tinted SUV’s and know that 99.9% of the people they stop, Texans, will not fight the ticket. If I had time I would spend a grand to fight it and make sure they showed that this “Chief” has the proper training and produced all the certifications for the radar gun and not sure how it could be done but make the “Chief” actually show the exact speed of a vehicle the second it passes the 50mph sign. I definitely do speed and have had 3 tickets in 49 years of driving, but getting rob by a crooked nobody town cop is something that “riles” me.

First ticket of any kind in 42 years of driving. Just received it as I was slowing from 65 to 50. The cop was within a few hundred feet of the first 50 MPH sign and caught me as I slowed to 62. But, the ticket is 70 mph in a 50 which is about $265 fine. Being from out of state, I have no way to contest it and, as the clerk just told me, it’s my tough luck. Avoid LA 165 if at all possible and stick to I-10.

The only way to beat this speed trap is to decrease from posted speed prior to the reduced speed sign. If you are not from the area, how could you know. The officer will have lights on as soon as you begin to brake from the 65 mph allowed speed. My ticket is 62 in a 50 zone. The fine is $190.

Louisiana Highway 165 reduces the speed on the road from 65 to 50 as you enter every town. The first thing you will see is a sign with a 50 and an arrow, indicating that the speed limit is being reduced up ahead. I was clocked going 63 in a 50 as I approached the North side of Fenton, LA. I believe I was zapped going 63 at the sign indicating the speed would be 50, not at the 50mph zone itself. I pulled down the first street because there was not a shoulder, and while the ticket was being written the guy who owned or rented the house I was in front of said the to police officer “you got another one.” This was my first speeding ticket in 13 years, and only my second in my driving career and I am 48. I was driving a rental with NC plates, and I have a MD license, I didn’t have a chance. The police officer only took my license to write the ticket. He didn’t look at the registration, nor ask for proof of insurance. He asked me what year the vehicle was so he could write it on my ticket. I took the Interstate highways all the way home, I suggest everybody else do the same.

Officer parked with car facing oncoming traffic. Not really hidden, but low profile and located just past the first 50 mph sign. I should have noticed it sooner, as I normally slow down for any small town regardless of whether there is a speed limit reduction. I don’t like speeders in my neighborhood. But to avoid braking too hard I was still slowing down while passing the sign. He pulled me over, said I was going 61 in a 50. Okay, fine, but I was slowing down rapidly to 45 and would not have just blasted through the town. $185 ticket for this??!! I’ll go an entirely different route next time to avoid Fenton and certainly won’t give them any business.