Wilmington, North Carolina Speed Traps

Wilmington PD now has a late model Red Ford Mustang GT w/ Crome Rims and Hood Scoop. Lights are hard to see so if you see WZ for the first three letters don’t race it, it’ll smoke your ride and get ya with a nice ticket.

Located on Dawson Street usually between 5th and 6th streets. Unmarked Dodge Charger usually sits around the afternoon rushhour — after 330 till 6ish and runs rear radar from the rightside of the road just as you crest the 3rd street hill. Speed limit is 35 but everyone travels on average 45… limit is extremely too low.

This is a major cut-through road to avoid the horrendous traffic from Eastwood Road to Oleander/Greenville Loop Road. Speed limit was recently dropped from 35 to 25 mph in this neighborhood. Cops regularly set up on small, blind side streets and get people speeding around blind curves. This is a "lucrative" speed trap area, and cops can be set up ANY TIME OF DAY! Be wary amd just don’t speed, b/c the blind curves may prevent line-of-sight radar detectors from saving you.

Starting August 6-August 17 is "Operation Slow Down" on I-40 headed to and from the beach. Anyone travelling over 8 mph will be ticketed. Most commonly placed under mile marker 319.

The police are set up on the end of I-40 East just after the speed limit drops from 70 mph to 55 mph. They sit on the east side of the bridge and wait for speeders to come over the bridge.