Dover, Tennessee Speed Traps

Highway 79 through the city of Dover has a stretch of four lane highway that is not in a commercial area indicating a speed limit of 55 MPH by state law. Poorly maker reduced limits are posted at 45MPH. The city of Dover received grants to purchase police cars and establish a police force and is now forced to support the force through tickets.

The hill just south of Dover, Tn. you have to use your brakes to stay under the speed limit or you will coast faster than the allowable speed. Beware, Barney one bullet will be waiting at the foot of the hill.

The several mile stretch of Hwy. 79 anywhere between town and the Dollar General store at the LBL turnoff is a bad spot. Its a wide 4 lane road and average safe speeds can easily be 55, but its posted 45. City and State Patrol cars sit off the road in the shadows of the tall pine trees and are hard to see. They use Instant ON radar. Also, at nite, they sit without any lites on!

Highway 232 is a long and twistie road. The speed limit used to be 55mph, but there were a few accidents and they knocked it down to 35mph. The TN. State Troopers stay on this road and patrol it all day long, esepecialy on the weekends. There is only one good staight on this road and they will sit off on a dirt road and stand behind trees and flag you over at the end of the staight.

If your going torwards Paris,TN or just going passed the elementary a cop will sometimes sit on either side of the road and u can sometimes see them when your torwards Paris, but if your coming down the hil it hard to see them until the last min and if your doing 5-10 miles over the speed limit they will stop you, but if they know you they really won’t stop so watch out on that hill you’ll know what im talking about cuz at night there is no street lights threw there.