Wilmington, North Carolina Speed Traps

The news reported that officers are posing as golfers at Echo Farms across from Coddington Elementary School. They sit in golf carts and asess speeds with radar then radio to the waiting officer a hundred yards or so down. This is a school zone for a year round school. It is always heavily enforced usually without undercover golfers just marked and unmarked cars.

As you’re driving down Market St. towards Downtown, you will pass a Port City Java on the right. There is a hill and other buildings preventing you from seeing the cop that’s about to pull you over. They are usually there during the day, I haven’t seen them at night but they might still lurk.

one car sits in the median behind trees a couple of more sit down the road waiting.

ok…these guys are serious. they wait in the same place all the time starting from around 6pm-2 am. they are looking for people speeding to get down town, and they are looking for people drinking and driving from and to down town. they usually hang around the side of market street near motel 6. also the speed changes from 45 to 35. and what happens is that people don’t see a sign for along time(which was set up intentionally) and the driver assumes that the speed limit is still 45, and so they do 50 mph, and a cop catches them on radar doing a 50 in a 35 mph zone. happens a lot.

cops tend to wait behind a wooded fence next to the entrance of a living complex. if you don’t see them, and you are speeding…you will definitley get a ticket. they also wait in near by parking lots on that street waiting for fish as well.