Quinwood, West Virginia Speed Traps

Easy to coast over the speed limit.

As previously stated, their administrative practices are horrible. I was to call for the amount of my fine. I swear she said $118. I paid it promptly in August. In April, I received a summons to appear for failure to pay. Having the cancelled check I called to clear it up. I said my name and the case number. She asked asked whom the matter concerned.. I said my name again. She again whom the citation was for. Finally she apparently realized it was me. Then she started to tell me about the additional charge that I owed for not appearing. I had to interrupt her lecture to tell her that I had only gotten the summons two days prior and wanted to know why. Finally, after reviewing the records, she let me know that I had written the check for $118 and the fine was $180. I suppose her accent was the reason for the mix-up. Fortunately, I just have to pay the other $70. Trust me, there was absolutely no professionalism from her in either conversation. Definitely worth fighting, especially because it cost me 5 points in addition to the $180 and dealing with the "court".

Not only will they ticket you for less than 5 miles over the limit, they might try to claim you didn’t pay your ticket and threaten to double the fine. Fortunately, I had made a copy of my ticket, had a copy of the “Return Receipt Requested” where I had mailed my check, and had a copy of the canceled check. When I sent this to the attention of the town council asking them to check out the accuracy and credibility of their City Clerk and/or Mayor, since the check was to be made payable to the Mayor’s office, I never heard another word.

This is a very small town, in and out before you know it. Speed limit drops from 55 to 40 MPH. Going North on Route 20, you travel up a hill, round a curve and go down a hill. The one municipal policeman sits at the bottom of the hill on the left. You think you are out of the town limits, but you are not. I had to pay $145 for coasting down the hill for doing 49 MPH.

This town is to small by WV law to use Radar for enforcement. If they say they clocked you with Radar, fight it. Also some of their patrolmen are ineligible to be law officers in WV. They did not apply to the acadamy on time and can never be certified in WV.