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Sheriff’s Traffic Unit Targets Century Speeders
April 15, 2009
One after another, Escambia deputies pulled speeders over in Century Tuesday.
Several deputies from the Escambia County Sheriff’s Department Traffic Unit conducted the operation, stopping car after car for violating the posted 35 mph speed limit on Highway 29 in Century.
“The new sheriff has heard the complaints, and we are going to beef up traffic operations in the north part of the county as much as we can,” said ECSO Traffic Unit Sgt. Ray Griffith in a recent NorthEscambia.com interview. “We are going to answer those complaints.”
The Traffic Unit often spends days in Pensacola working traffic in between escorting funerals. But Sheriff David Morgan has directed the unit to crack down on traffic in North Escambia when time allows, making traffic control a priority.
The Traffic Unit worked a similar operation in Walnut Hill about a month ago, and Griffith promised NorthEscambia.com at that time that a crackdown would be coming in Century.
The tickets being written Tuesday were not cheap. Driving 50 mph in a 35 mph zone is a $266 ticket. Hit 30 mph over the posted speed limit, and the ticket has no fixed cost. The offender is required to see a judge, and the judge sets the fine amount at his or her discretion.
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5 Responses to “Sheriff’s Traffic Unit Targets Century Speeders”
When I saw the police, they were lined up on hwy 4, that stretch of 35mph, it the road i am speaking of.
I saw all these police lined up that day under a tree. I was doing the speed limit as always, but it is hard, when you are doing 55 and the sign says “reduced speed ahead” so you take your foot off the gas, and then see 35mph and have to hit the brakes. I am familiar with it so I know.
And you don’t have to go 10mph over the speed limit to keep people from running over you, DO THE SPEED LIMIT, and they will have to slow down too. It isn’t a 4 lane hwy, it is a 2 lane.
It is about time that we got A sherrif that is not scared of what might happen . and gets out there and dose something aboout thoses speeder out there. I use to be on the fire dept in century and i cant tell u how many wrecks we were called to for idiot speeding and not paying any attion to what was going on. Go gettem Sherrif David Morgan. Even If it is my granny give her a ticket.
I am so glad to hear this. You have to go 10 mph over the speed limit just to keep from getting run over by everyone else!
Maybe 35 mph isn’t the right speed for this stretch of 29, but right now it is what it is and people need to obey it!
We finally have a sherrif that seems to cares about us. It’s been a long time coming, but he is finally here, and I hope people appreciate him. I have been afraid of that stretch of highway for a long time. I just hope they will also target some of those eighteen wheelers that fly like crazy through there.