State Highway 180 near State Highway 64
The speed limit is reduced from 65 MPH to 45 MPH. The signage warning of the reduced speed limit is easy to miss, because of extensive billboards in the vicinity. The area is extremely rural; there is no apparent justification for the reduced speed limit. The road being straight and open, with very little development around it, a motorist would reasonably presume the speed limit to be 65 MPH. A motorist who fails to see the 45 MPH posting (there is just one), and who continues at 65 MPH can be charged with a criminal violation, a Class 3 misdemeanor, for going 20+ MPH over the speed limit. A speed trap exists about 1000 ft into the 45 MPH zone, where highway 180 diverges from highway 64.
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