Carthage, North Carolina Speed Traps

15-501 & 24-27 merge and the speed limit is marked 35MPH just before and after this region. Local police lay monitor this area closely. Just slow down…

Travelling South on 15-501 (as toward Pinehurst area or Myrtle Beach), Smokey is usually sitting off sides of the road. Speed limit quickly reduced from 55 to 45 to 35 in a matter of less than 1 mile. Be doing 35 when you reach the Carthage city limit, and particularly when rounding the turn where S.R. 24 veers to the right. When coming north, Smokey sits in the shopping plaza to the leFort Again, rapid speed limit reduction in this direction.

City police like to sit in front of the saw and mower repair shop on hwy 15-501 and 24-27 clocking with forward and rear facing K-band radar. Also anytime, anywhere they are also patroling and using radar throughout the city limits.