When headed westward through town on US 78, there is only one visible 35 MPH speed limit sign. When you exit the town and are within a wooded area, there is no speed limit sign, so assuming the SC law about unposted rural secondary roads’ speed limit is 45 will get you a fat ticket. Believe it or not, the wooded area is considered a 35 MPH zone, but you don’t see the sign unless you are coming from the west.

How prosecuting officer can say that where I was clocked was the location on the summons is beyond me. Hampton Street is a secondary street with a grassy median obviously in town. Got to show jurisdiction in court for appropriate venue, I guess?

This police department has been a pariah to Barnwell County for years. As people want to develop this portion of the so-called “Heritage Corridor,” this will never happen as long as these little “Carter Country” towns earn revenue from highway piracy.

When a town can no longer have a sufficient tax base to support a local government, then they resort to this each and every time. Until the SC General Assembly takes all funding from a Uniform Traffic Ticket into a state-controlled fund, this is going to be business as usual, as it is simply no more than “business” and not traffic enforcement.