Corrigan, Texas Speed Traps

Small town that makes its living writing tickets. Pay attention to the speed limit signs, they change quickly.

I was coming into Corrigan TX from the North on 59. I was doing 60MPH outside the city limits. 60 in a 55. I was driving in traffic with 4 other vehicles. Police officer was outside of town still on the divided highway. He turned his lights on and got in behind me. I pulled over. When PO came up to my truck he said i was speeding, I asked how fast i was going, he said i should no that. I told him i DID and i was not speeding. He said that the city limits was 45 MPH. I told him i was not in the city limits when he turned around and turned his lights on. He then stated again it is only 45 in the city limits. When he gave me my CITATION it was for 70 in a 55. The Police officer flat out lied on his citation. I don’t mind payinig a ticket when i get caught. I do speed sometimes. It is a terrible thing to know that the police are pulling over out of state plates and citing them for speeding even when they are not. It is cheeper to pay then to try to fight it and take off the multiple days off work to fight it. A week later when i cam back through town he had another carpulled over. Corrigan Texas is definately a speed trap. Only difference is the police do not care if they lie about your speed.

The city has several change in speed limits on a major highway going through the town. The patrol always has one or two people pulled over.

I’m 42 and I have a massive respect for law enforcers, the concept of law, and execute safe driving to a degree that normally gets me ridiculed as being a goodie-goodie. I even on occasion will anonymously pick up a cop’s tab at restaurants out of appreciation and that I abhor those with no respect for their fellow man.
I’ve only had 4 speeding tickets in my life 2 (of course) when I was a teen with only 2 in my adult life.
Both of those were issued to me in this worthless town of Corrigan, 10 years apart.
I’m through with using 287 for travel between DFW and Beaumont, which I do upwards of 4 times a year. I’m taking the Interstates from now on, via Dallas to Houston on I-45. The issue is these parasitical communities relish in taking advantage of wildly-deviating speed limits in the matter of yards coupled with the pressure from motorists riding your rear to pressure you to not just stick cruising at the low. This reveals the core priority is NOT public safety, it’s revenue-generation. But, for me this issue is over with because after this last ticket, I came back using the Interstate cruising a vastly-more steady 65-70 with adequate signage and found (as I long suspected) absolutely no loss to time or mileage.
And, besides from now on, if I do get pulled over, it will be by a state trooper, thus I won’t be supplementing bottom-feeder communities anymore.
So, if you commute the same route I do, please consider going totally around as I describe. You won’t be expected to look for purposefully-inadequate speed signs and if you’re happy to set your cruise at an honest speed limit that alters very little for miles on end, your troubles will be over.

Driving back home from a family T-day in Houston with my wife and 3 year old daughter. White mini-van and a black travel pod. Cruising at the 70 mph posted speed limit when came up on 3 18 wheelers coming onto the road. One veered into my lane so I made a quick move to go around. Once around, the speed limit sign was 45 so I quickly dropped my speed. The speed changes 5 times in this little town. We were almost through town when I got pulled over. The officer said he was following me all the way which was not true. I explained the conditions and reminded him that I followed the limit to a Tee at every change in speed. He questioned me on where I worked and any warrants. I am a LT. in the USCG and work for the VA and this obviously enraged the officer. He came back after 20 minutes with a citation. He also has his spot light trained directly on my daughter. This is a very bad spot so beware. I am out of town, so they conveniently don’t offer defensive driving so I have to pay.