ISP Needs to Patrol 30
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Friday afternoon I was leaving the Kmart plaza and was in a line of cars waiting at the light to pull onto U.S. 30. The light turned green and the first car started to drive across the highway but stopped suddenly. At that time a semi came through at about 50 mph. Figuring the red light overlap and the reaction time of the lead car to the green light, I bet that semi entered the intersection on a light that had been red for at least 5 seconds. Sadly, I think running red lights in Warsaw is a very common and accepted action and is why I don’t trust the lights without checking both ways for myself.
Sunday morning at 8:50 a.m. I saw a state trooper pull into the Glen’s Wrecker parking lot to ambush speeders on CR 250N. He wasn’t there 10 seconds before I saw him in pursuit of an offender. I was wondering why the state police would set up a speed trap there when this is a county road near the city limits. To my surprise and further disgust he was there looking for speeders when I came by again at 11 a.m.
Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t condone speeding. What bothers me is why a state police officer would be looking for speeders on a county road when he could be doing a lot more good for everyone’s safety by going after the red light runners on U.S. 30. It seems like a gross misuse of police resources. Somebody needs to step up. I consider red light runners to be a lot more of a threat to the public’s safety than someone driving 50 mph in a 40 mph zone. It seems like the only police presence on U.S. 30 in the Warsaw area is the city police that sit in the median near the Ind. 15 overpass. I hope it doesn’t take another fatality on U.S. 30 to prove my point.
Kevin Edmonds
Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]
Friday afternoon I was leaving the Kmart plaza and was in a line of cars waiting at the light to pull onto U.S. 30. The light turned green and the first car started to drive across the highway but stopped suddenly. At that time a semi came through at about 50 mph. Figuring the red light overlap and the reaction time of the lead car to the green light, I bet that semi entered the intersection on a light that had been red for at least 5 seconds. Sadly, I think running red lights in Warsaw is a very common and accepted action and is why I don’t trust the lights without checking both ways for myself.
Sunday morning at 8:50 a.m. I saw a state trooper pull into the Glen’s Wrecker parking lot to ambush speeders on CR 250N. He wasn’t there 10 seconds before I saw him in pursuit of an offender. I was wondering why the state police would set up a speed trap there when this is a county road near the city limits. To my surprise and further disgust he was there looking for speeders when I came by again at 11 a.m.
Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t condone speeding. What bothers me is why a state police officer would be looking for speeders on a county road when he could be doing a lot more good for everyone’s safety by going after the red light runners on U.S. 30. It seems like a gross misuse of police resources. Somebody needs to step up. I consider red light runners to be a lot more of a threat to the public’s safety than someone driving 50 mph in a 40 mph zone. It seems like the only police presence on U.S. 30 in the Warsaw area is the city police that sit in the median near the Ind. 15 overpass. I hope it doesn’t take another fatality on U.S. 30 to prove my point.
Kevin Edmonds
Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]
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