Norton, Ohio Speed Traps

Norton police are now using handheld laser photo guns called a Dragoncam on I-76 in the construction zone. The ticket is issued via mail and is $200.

Rt 261 Heading East from Rt 21 is ALL 35mph…It is ALL rural area. We live in Wayne County and all roads of this nature are 55mph. We attended traffic court, which is every Thursday at 4pm. The place was PACKED. Over 50 people on the docket. If every person is paying $150 x 50 = $7500 for an hour or so of court a week. THAT is what was so disturbing about it. I would wonder, what on earth does a little town like Norton do with ALL that money? It is very strange to be in the middle of nowhere, with no businesses and scattered farms to go 35mph… To me it seems excessive. Then to see that courtroom so packed… Something’s not right… And the pleas were all the same: people going 60 in a 35 or 70+ in a 55mph… And they have decided that if you are 21mph over the speed limit, automatic court. I had never heard of that before.

I have seen two cruisers right at the old Red Pepper parking lot, one pointed one way and the other in the opposite direction. They catch people speeding right there all the time. Sometimes there is three cruisers parked there and sad thing is they are hid by the building so people going towards Barberton on Barber cannot see them. I got pulled over one time there for running the blinking red, the officer told me I didnt stop long enough. Stopped, looked, no traffic so I went. Didnt stop me for over a half a mile and thats after stopping at another stop sign.

OSP likes to sit at Eastern Rd. and 585 shooting radar at vehicles coming down the hill from Doylestown. Most of the time, you can spot the cruiser from the top of the hill before you get into range, but they love to hit you with radar just as you see them at the bottom of the hill close to Eastern Rd.

Norton Police Department frequently wait for speeders to go above the posted 60 mph speed limit. Most speed limits are nearby freeways are 65 mph. They wait around bends and in dips in the freeway. Motorists are pulled over for going 5+ over the speed limit.