An out-of-state driver, I got caught here in the late afternoon in November, 2012. Had no idea until the $100 ticket arrived in the mail three weeks later. This is a three-lane major highway (northbound) with a ridiculously low 50 mph limit with barely any traffic (at least on a Saturday) and it's as straight as an arrow. 75mph would easily be a safe speed there. If I was doing 63 mph, then so was everyone else. I'm usually one of the slower drivers on the road, and from the ticket photos I was in the right lane. Only the jerkiest of cops would have bothered to ticket someone going my speed. This unconstitutional camera nonsense has nothing to do with safety; it's all about easy money for our ever-expanding fascistic, predatory government agencies. I, for one, will never return to the D.C. area after this.

I was caught twice in an one week period. I had recently moved to the area and was ticketed on my way home. I paid one ticket and the second one has doubles to $250. One would assume the limit was higher. I think it's ridiculous for a 50 MPH when the interstate is a whisper over. I notice now that the cameras are gone, but that sometimes police cars marked and unmarked are sitting in the spot now. I doubt I will get my money back and probably need to pay that other ticket. There was a really deadly drag-racing accident out on 210/ Indian Head Highway a few years which has straight lanes that are widely used for racing, yet not one camera has been installed there. I feel that the 295S cameras are speed traps that are just used to fleece the pockets of motorists and line the pockets for DC.

This trap is still there - I got snagged on May 22 for doing 62 mph. It's ridiculous that the speed limit is only 50 on this major highway.

Doing a military PCS from NC to NY. Have driven same road many times - useful to stop at Fort Meade. I always use cruise control to less than 10 over. But the traffic on 295 is not consistent and the speed limit varies with few postings so it's easy to assume the usual 55. I was ticketed $100 for going 61. They sent me the pic of my car. I will send them the money but use another route because I can and, over the years, I will visit other cities and forget about visiting DC or spending any more money there. I understand stopping speeders who are dangerous but a mom in the car with her kid not going crazy, that's just taking advantage of people. I am a graduate student and now I have to not buy my kid a birthday present. Hope they enjoy my $100 because no more DC for me. In the end, they are just hurting themselves when they need us to go there and spend. Just a real speed trap for someone who has barely had a ticket in 25 years.

If you look at the DOT data website: according to it, since installing the camera in 2011, crashes (none fatal) have significantly gone down. However, most crashes were caused by rear end (#1) and side swipes collisions. This is caused by drivers following too closely or not checking blind spots when changing lanes. Maybe the answer is to train drivers better rather than have a speed trap for unsuspecting drivers, especially if you are from out of state. The police should be looking at intoxicated drivers and people on their cell phones than just indiscriminately charging people who live too far to defend themselves.

This speed trap still exists as of Feb 21st, 2016. I was returning from a convention at National Harbor, using 295 northbound to cut across 495. This is a three lane highway, and the camera is located in an empty area that has no residents or heavy traffic. There are no turns near the camera, and it is positioned immediately off the exit from 495, before even the first exit of 295 northbound. I was caught going 66, a speed within the limits of 495. I did not see any signs, nor were there many cars on the road for a Sunday morning. Setting a 50mph limit for an empty 3 lane highway off a major roadway is fairly ridiculous. Combined with DC's strict speeding laws, I now owe $150 for going 66 on a highway. I'm thinking of fighting the ticket, as $150 is a large amount for the first speeding ticket I have ever received. Frankly, I feel like this ticket and limit is unfair.

This speed trap is still active. I was so confused when I received the ticket in the mail. I didn't even see any signs stating it was 50MPH limit or any police. I defiantly want to contest this ticket, as it is my first EVER ticket. It seems so odd for a 3 lane highway off a major roadway to have this type of speed limit. I honestly thought i was doing the speed limit at 65mph and going with the flow of the traffic. It is definitely all about the money and it is disgusting!

This is horrible, I have been driving for over 5 years and never gotten a speed ticket. I still do not know where this camera is and was speeding on that road today. This is DC government ripping citizens off.

I got 2 tickets in a roll in this area which agree that the safe speed would be 60-65 because it is in the rural area per laws written in DMV booklet. I suggest each one of us write a letter to our congressman to: 1. raise speed limit for this rural area. This purely a money making for the police and city punishing the poor small citizens while they should focus more on the criminals. 2. test the camera system. Every where else, pretty much city removed the cameras because the city would no longer afford the cost. Why this area, police decided to keep it. Obviously, they are making big money off of the small people like us. Disgusted.

This is definitely is a SPEED trap. I don't think this is fair for citizen to keep getting all the complains but there is NOTHING for Government or MVD doing anything to help citizen better but instead keep taking money. I am agreed with all the comments above.

We got one too on Dec 18 2016. 62mph in a 50 mph @ around 9am .7 miles s/o exit1 S/B. We were in the R/H lane with cars whizzing by us in the hammer lane at probably 70 to 80 mph. This is a major scam and a totally sick way for DC to gouge the motoring public.

Speed trap still there. Was leaving National Harbor to go by my mother-in-law's childhood home. About two weeks later, I receive an envelope in the mail from DC police saying that I was doing 64 in a 45 and since it was a work zone, the fine was double, i.e. $400. Only car in the photo, but I distinctly remember vehicles behind me. And the work zone, absolutely NO workers present, nor any prep work. Not until you get about a couple of miles north, do you hit road work. Most jurisdictions now do NOT double speeding fines if workers are not in the area on interstate like highways, especially in major Southern cities of the size of the Greater Washington area. I travel throughout the South for work and live in Atlanta, so I do have an idea of what I am talking about. Plan to send a written protest. Will provide an update.

Speed trap still here. Similar to post 12, the fine was double and the speed limit was 40mph (changing daily:(). I was also the only car in the camera on a three lane highway.

The speed trap is definitely still there. Just got a $300 ticket in the mail for doing 59 in a supposedly 40mph zone?! I almost always use cruise control set within 5 miles of the posted speed limit, and I honestly do not recall seeing any signage stating 40mph. The picture shows me on a practically empty three lane stretch of 295 just before exit 1A. The fine was doubled due to the area being labeled a work zone, although I do not recall seeing any signage or work going on, nor is there any in the pictures that were mailed to me. #12, did you have any luck with your written protest? Has anyone else fought this successfully?

I just got a $200 tix for supposedly doing 54 in a Work Zone with a 40 MPH speed limit. Like the last post, I don't recall seeing a sign about the 40 MPH or it being a Work Zone, BUT if memory serves, I was going a different route to Nats park. I'm tempted to try to fight this, since as the previous post states, my picture shows absolutely no sign of a Work Zone.

#16 if you got caught at the camera in the link that you posted. I created that speed trap and posted an update in the comments.

$800! That's the ticket I received for going 67mph in a 40mph "workzone". Speed camera was .2 miles south of exit 1. Also, just learned that the speed limit used to be 50, but recently has been reduced to 40. I will be going to a walk-in hearing to try and contest this however I can as I just spent my money on Christmas presents. I will post update.

This is still a speed trap !!!! I’m 18 years old coming from Massachusetts where their are no camera traps. I was heading to VA to see my girlfriend. I got the ticket July 1st 2020 and didn’t receive it in the mail until July 20th. I got caught doing 62 in a 50. I did some research and I don’t think these tickets go on your record but if they do I’m worried !! I wanna be a trucker in the future and a speeding ticket will not look good for me !!

This is definitely a speed trap. I work for the MDot and just got an email from HQ saying I got a ticket for doing 61 in a 50 at DC 295 at south of exit 1. The camera takes the photo as you come off that little bridge of the small road that leads to the US Naval Research Laboratory. I was coming from a job site and my GPS had me take 295 to get back to Hanover, Md. When I came off that ramp from Oxon there was a sign that said the speed limit was 55. My speedometer on the car is off from the gps speed so I went by the gps. The mph for the road never changed until I got further past this trap. Either the sign is down and the speed trap company knows it or the city has gotten reports and won't do anything about it. I'm actually going to drive down early in the morning and get proof. My time is definitely worth me doing this. 100 dollars is ridiculous. epecially when they make sure to get you at 11 over.

Speed trap camera is still there LMFAO. FUCK Washington DC. It's a failed city. $100 fine for 61 in a 50 zone right at the Exit. Shit drivers passing me in the left lane doing 70 - 75 mph - fuck DC, fuck Maryland drivers too most entitled asshat drivers. God damn stay away from DC if you have the chance. #1 homicide city in the US 1992 for a reason. It's a swamp, MDOT should burn to the fucking ground greedy fucks.

Got hit on December 2023 Description 'SPEED 11-15 OVR LIMT' Cost 100 dollars.