RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Tickets

12.07.2005

Tickets

I didn't get caught!

Nestor Traffic Systems photographed more than 2,600 alleged speeders this fall -- snapping as many as seven cars a minute -- in and around Akron school zones.

The take in fines in that 19-day period: nearly half a million dollars.

The tripod-mounted mobile cameras nailed the most drivers in the 1400 and 1500 blocks of Copley Road, near Erie Island Elementary School in West Akron. Nestor nabbed more than 1,000 drivers there and issued $182,000 in fines, nearly 40 percent of the total.

The second-busiest stakeout was in the 400 block of Darrow Road near Betty Jane Elementary School in Goodyear Heights: 301 vehicles were photographed, and $51,250 in fines was generated.

The site that netted the fewest violations -- just one -- was in the 700 block of Lovers Lane, near where a 10-year-old boy going to school was killed by a hit-skip driver in September.

I think it's important to enforce speed limits in school zones, but come on, do we need RoboCop to do it? What about the creepy cop who sits in a random church parking lot out of site at 7:30 in the moring whom I secretly loath, will he be out of a job? Oh the worries, oh the worries...

The BJ :: Cameras accuse 2,600 of speeding

(joe :: Tickets)

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