Lake Charles, Louisiana Speed Traps

Driving south on nelson road, right south the mobile home park inbetween Ham Reid road and Gauthier road. before the hospital, officers like to hide on the right side of the road in a vacant lot hiding behind the bushes in some cases.

Holly Hill runs North/South between Lake Street and Prien Lake Road. Local police tend to hide on a side street next to the church aiming their radar south at north-bound traffic. This is a common bypass road to miss morning and evening rush hour traffic on Nelson Rd. for people going to/from Prien Lake Road. Speed limit is an unusually low 35 mph (where comparable roads in the immediate area are 40-45mph) and traffic is usually light. Lots of little side roads to hide out in but typically they hide by the church and catch northbound traffic.

Holly Hill runs North/South between Sale Road and Prien Lake Road. Local police tend to hide on a side street next to the church aiming their radar south at north-bound traffic. This is a common bypass road to miss morning and evening rush hour traffic on Nelson Rd. for people going to/from Prien Lake Road. Speed limit is an unusually low 35 mph (where comparable roads in the immediate area are 40-45mph) and traffic is usually light. Lots of little side roads to hide out in but typically they hide by the church and catch northbound traffic.

Ryan St. north of where Sallier St. (the railroad tracks) cross to South Ryan St./7th Street crossing. Most of Ryan St. south of this point is 40-45mph 4-lane. Around Sallier St. it goes to 35mph and 3-lane (2 northbound, 1 southbound) and will drop even lower as you continue north of South Ryan/7th street (same street, just changes names from one side of Ryan to the other). This is a huge drop in the distance of about a block with no obvious reason for it. Police typically will hide in the shade under one of the large trees at or near the old church parking lot (which is now a restaurant) on the East side of the road. Difficult to spot on sunny days due to the tree and shade hiding their outline so well. I have been alerted to both laser and radar at this location, but laser was only once and may have been an evaluation unit as they were also using radar 100 yards north of that location (I have never had another laser hit in Lake Charles).

The newly expanded 4-lane with turn lane between I-210 and Sale Rd. Police tend to hide on the eastern side of the road at any of a number of spots obscured by brush. Typically catching northbound traffic as they are active during rush hour and southbound traffic often gets backed up and there’s no way to do the speed limit. Speed limit is still set at the old 35mph speed from when it was a residential two-lane, but isn’t appropriate for a brand new 5-lane meant to be a major traffic through route for north/south traffic. This is one of the most heavily radar-monitored roads in the city as it’s easy pickings.