Kettering, Ohio Speed Traps

When Mild Temperatures outside, Motorcycle Cops are sitting in the parking lots by James Free Jewelers and also Grieve Hardware. They sneak up behind you and get you down by the library or Stroop Rd.

Car sits in the median turning area, with headlights shining in your face, acting like a car waiting to turn. North Bound direction.

Around the 2900 block of County Line Road, just a few blocks north of Dorothy Lane. Officer sits in parking lot on west side of road (apartment complex), partially obscured by trees, and hits you with radar as you pop over the hill going southbound. Posted limit is 35, but given it is a wide 4 lane road, and that most people speed well above 35, it is unrealistic. Besides myself (18 mph over), saw at least one other person nailed shortly thereafter. Fines for speeding in Kettering are high too.

Kettering police car sits in the shopping center containing Subway and Ace Hardware, in front of Subway by Stroop. He’s looking for people speeding down towards Ackerman and possibly toward Marshall.

A Kettering police car sits in the parking lot of the apartment complex adjacent to the Shell station at the intersection of County Line and Indian Ripple roads. They have also recently started using the Ohio National Guard parking lot on County Line Rd.