The first left, off of Main Street after exiting Business Interstate 40 and heading East, is Old Winston Road. A single 35MPH Speed Limit sign is posted on Old Winston Road, just after passing through the curvy and very heavily congested commercial area between Papa Johns Pizza and J. Pepper’s Restaurant. The road merges with Hopkins Road after taking a right through a yield sign and there is not another Speed Limit Sign posted until about another mile down the road, where there is then a 45MPH Speed Limit sign posted. There are then a series of extreme curves and cautionary (yellow) speed reccommendation signs, one curve is 35MPH recommended and the next is 30MPH recommended.

Officer’s sit, eager to ticket violators, in the 7th Day Adventist Church parking lot along Old Winston Road, just before the yield sign at the merge, clocking people who pass through the tempting downhill straight-away towards the merge.

My experience was as follows: Around 9pm on a Friday night, after having traveled the interstate from the east on 2-28-2014, heading home after a 300 mile round trip (with no incidences to this point and I was less than 5 miles from home); without another car in sight when passing the 7th Day Adventist Church Parking Lot, head-lights suddenly came on (I was probably cruising at 40MPH in the 35MPH zone) and an officer proceeded to whip out of the parking lot and get behind me, at which time I set the cruise control on 37MPH. Over the next three miles, through the unposted zone on Hopkins Road and then through the series of low cautionary speed zones, the officer was one car length or less behind me- I suppose trying to push me to increase my speed through a down-hill run – and to try to force me to cross the center line through the extreme curves. After this initmidation tactic, having not gotten me to speed or drive poorly (despite effort- having tailgated me the whole distance) the officer raced past me and turned right upon reaching the double lane intersection at Talley’s Crossing; the intersection of of Hopkins Road and West Mountain Street.