Knoxville, Tennessee Speed Traps

Cruiser will sit at the bottom of North Winston Road across from the YMCA. The grade on both sides of the hill is 3-4% with a stop sign at the north end. Speed limit is 30 MPH. No one will brake to 30 MPH going down a hill this steep when the grade is the same going up the other side. It’s a real money-maker for the City of Knoxville.

Be careful on Lonas. Cops like to put the radar on you as you’re driving on a downward slope. The speed limit is 35 mph, but it’s very easy to go over 50 on this road.

South end of the Henley Street Bridge (US 441) where Henley Street crosses Blount Ave and becomes Chapman Highway. Knoxville City cops regularly run radar on traffic crossing the bridge from evening rush hour through the night until morning rush hour. Speed limit on the bridge is posted 35mph.

Patrol cars are parked on sidestreets of Piney Grove Church along and below the steep hill area. Radar reedings are taken without line of site of the target vehicle.

If traveling west on 640, just past Clinton Hwy, as you approach the hilltop drop your speed to 60 MPH. KPD routinely positions so that they can catch drivers as they come over the hill. I was recently ticketed at night; the officer’s car was positioned just beyond the end of the dividing wall between East & West traffic. Around mid-day I have seen at times three KPD vehicles + state troopers with vehicles pulled over in this stretch.