Yamato Road overpass/ Florida Turnpike

Boca Raton, FloridaJul 08, 20021 Comments

More then 10 Palm Beach County Sheriffs on Motorcycles supplemented by another uniform officer that hides in the pedestrian walkway on the Yamato overpass with Laser detection. After Laser detection, officer radios ahead to the mass group awaiting on the other side of the overpass to issue citations. The group will walk into traffic and pull the offending cars out of line for ticketing. The posted Speed Limit on this six lane median divided highway is 45MPH. This was lowered from it original 55MPH after a traffic accident which resulted in four fatalities. The Florida DOT investigated the accident and concluded in its findings that the 55MPH limit was adequate. The state only changed the limit after public pressure from a local condo retirement community. This gives law enforcement an overextended reach when executing its speed trap.

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I remember that speed trap on Yamato, when my my black middle aged female friend who never drives over 35 miles per hour was charged with going 70 because a car passed her and they clocked the wrong car. Where are these cops when people fail to use a turn signal or they go though a stop sign or they don't stop on red before turning right or they don't use headlights in the rain or they pass in an intersection or they follow too closely...you get they picture. They do the EASY stuff, they turn on a radar gun.
#1Mar 10, 2010Report Abuse

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