HUNTINGTON BEACH : Police Radar Speed Trailer Use Planned
In an effort to get speeders to slow down, the Police Department will place its radar speed trailer in several spots throughout the city for a month beginning Sunday.
The trailer will sit for 24 hours at a time in 20 locations. Drivers will see the speed they are driving displayed by the trailer as they pass, police said. Police are not planning to have officers stationed at the site for the full time the trailer is in use.
The radar trailers will also post the legal speed limits in the area, police said.
The trailer will be at the following locations: 16161 Parkside Lane on Sunday; 17th Street near Acacia Avenue on Tuesday; Main Street in front of Huntington Beach High School on Wednesday; Adams Avenue at Lotus Lane April 10; Indianapolis Avenue east of Ives Lane April 11; Heil Avenue east of Monroe Avenue April 12; Delaware Street south of the Boys and Girls Club April 13; McFadden Avenue west of Electronic Lane April 17, and 12 other places until May 4.
The trailer serves as “an educational tool to let people know how fast they’re actually driving and see for themselves what we would see through a radar gun,” Sgt. T.R. Swan said.
He said when most speeders see their speed flash on the trailer, they tend to “dramatically slow down.”
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