Speed Traps Rt 30 & Rt 22

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Subject: Speed traps on Rt 30 and 22

North Huntingdon, Monroeville, Murrysville, Wilkins TWP
Local Police Using State-Of-The-Art Equipment To Nab
Speeders

It's time to lighten up your lead foot if you're driving
along Routes 30 and 22 or anywhere in North Huntingdon,
Murrysville, Monroeville, and Wilkins Twp .

All four communities are sharing a device designed to trap
speeders.

The device looks like a metal field goal post on each side
of the road, only a lot less visible.

When a car passes through the posts, police know precisely
how fast it's going within 1 mph.

"These receivers receive a beam which is basically an
infrared beam much like garage doors that keep your child
safe," said Sgt. Duane Kucera of the North Huntingdon
Police Department. "The beam shoots across and it goes back
up, it shoots a beam across."

About 25 of the traps, called electronic non-radar devices,
were given to local departments like North Huntingdon to be
shared and placed in problem areas.

"All the data that has come in from local police
departments have supplied crash information," said Robert
Zwyer of Buckle Up Pennsylvania. "We look at where we need
to go, our targeted roadways. The Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation has set a standard of so many crashes,
speed-related, then we have a speeding problem."

On Monday, police put their ENRADD near the Irwin Sheetz on
Route 30 at the intersection of Thompson Road where there
have been numerous accidents.

Thanks to an officer who sits near the ENRADD and reads
speeds, a second officer can be up to a half-mile away from
the device and still catch someone speeding.

North Huntingdon police nabbed six speeders in 30 minutes
on Monday using the device.

The state will fund another 25 of the devices next year.

It's time to lighten up your lead foot if you're driving
along Routes 30 and 22 or anywhere in North Huntingdon,
Murrysville, Monroeville, and Wilkins Twp


This is what it will look like: