Jurisdiction

Auburn, California

Speed Trap Location

Auburn Folsom Road, south of town

Nearest Reference Point

n/a

GPS Coordinates

n/a

Time of Day

Any time

Level of Enforcement

High

Type of Enforcement

Radar

Date

2/2002

After leaving the stoplight at Indian Hill Road, headed south, you imagine yourself to be in a rural area. There are NO posted speed limit signs. However, as you round the second curve on this steep downhill drive,there is a sudden 35MPH sign. And, right after that is the speed trap. There is no warning that you are even in a 35MPH zone.

Comment (7/2002): I drive this area regularly and only an idiot would drive through there at anything over 35 anyway. OK so 95% of the people driving this route are idiots. So what. Does speeding keep people alive or prevent accidents?

Comment (2/2003): I worked CHP enforcement in the Auburn Area for 12 years until I retired in 1998. If I remember correctly, there was, at least when I was there, a speed limit sign within a hundred feet south of Indian Hill Road. But I know there are no speed traps on Auburn-Folsom Road that fall into the Vehicle Code definition of "speed trap". If the average driver would slow down to the posted speed limits and read the other signs posted along the road instead of hanging their butts out on the edge, putting not only their lives in danger but the other roadway users, they would notice that there are advance warnings that speed is enforced by radar. Instead of crying the blues about a ticket, drive sensibly and you won't get one. If you do get one, fight it. They are not cut and dried, I've lost plenty of good tickets when it came to trial time for various reasons, I didn't take notes immediately after I wrote the ticket or the viotator put on a more convincing defense. But if you continually drive on the edge you're going to get hammered, not so much by the cops but more by your own stupidity! Fatalities from excessive speed on Auburn- Folsom Road usually resulted from the out of control drivers running off the road and killing tehmselves and/or their passengers. Other cases involved the idiot driver crossing the center line on a curve because he was going too fast and taking out some poor smuck just trying to get to work so he could feed his family. It basically boils down to this, whatever risk you are will to assume while driving you are exposing your passenger to it too and, more often than not, other highway users. You have the right to be stupid but you don't have the right to harm others through your reckless actions. From a cop's perspective a speeding ticket is the easiest to find and write, it's a no brainer because the average motorist just does not look any place but straight ahead when they're going fast, what we call tunnel vision.

Comment (6/2003): "Right On" to John Law. Everybody is in a hurry to go to work and then to go home. On the weekend they are in a hurry to give their money to Tahoe and then in a hurry to get back to the Bay area. Try and get out of a side street on Highway 50 from Riverton to Meyers. Everybody is driving in the me first mode and could care less about anybody else. They tailgate at 60 mph two car lengths behind.

Jurisdiction

Auburn, California

Speed Trap Location

Auburn Ravine Rd, Dairy Rd, Luther Rd

Nearest Reference Point

n/a

GPS Coordinates

n/a

Time of Day

Any time

Level of Enforcement

High

Type of Enforcement

Radar

Date

5/2001

A ridiculous number of stop signs have been added to Auburn Ravine and Luther Roads for the purpose of speed control. Police hide on any and every side street of these 3 roads, waiting for speeders, or california stops. Especially the school parking lot on Dairy Rd.

Comment (7/2002): I drive this area regularly and only an idiot would drive through there at anything over 35 anyway. OK so 95% of the people driving this route are idiots. So what. Does speeding keep people alive or prevent accidents?

Comment (2/2003): I worked CHP enforcement in the Auburn Area for 12 years until I retired in 1998. If I remember correctly, there was, at least when I was there, a speed limit sign within a hundred feet south of Indian Hill Road. But I know there are no speed traps on Auburn-Folsom Road that fall into the Vehicle Code definition of "speed trap". If the average driver would slow down to the posted speed limits and read the other signs posted along the road instead of hanging their butts out on the edge, putting not only their lives in danger but the other roadway users, they would notice that there are advance warnings that speed is enforced by radar. Instead of crying the blues about a ticket, drive sensibly and you won't get one. If you do get one, fight it. They are not cut and dried, I've lost plenty of good tickets when it came to trial time for various reasons, I didn't take notes immediately after I wrote the ticket or the viotator put on a more convincing defense. But if you continually drive on the edge you're going to get hammered, not so much by the cops but more by your own stupidity! Fatalities from excessive speed on Auburn- Folsom Road usually resulted from the out of control drivers running off the road and killing tehmselves and/or their passengers. Other cases involved the idiot driver crossing the center line on a curve because he was going too fast and taking out some poor smuck just trying to get to work so he could feed his family. It basically boils down to this, whatever risk you are will to assume while driving you are exposing your passenger to it too and, more often than not, other highway users. You have the right to be stupid but you don't have the right to harm others through your reckless actions. From a cop's perspective a speeding ticket is the easiest to find and write, it's a no brainer because the average motorist just does not look any place but straight ahead when they're going fast, what we call tunnel vision.

Comment (6/2003): "Right On" to John Law. Everybody is in a hurry to go to work and then to go home. On the weekend they are in a hurry to give their money to Tahoe and then in a hurry to get back to the Bay area. Try and get out of a side street on Highway 50 from Riverton to Meyers. Everybody is driving in the me first mode and could care less about anybody else. They tailgate at 60 mph two car lengths behind.

Comment (7/2002): I drive this area regularly and only an idiot would drive through there at anything over 35 anyway. OK so 95% of the people driving this route are idiots. So what. Does speeding keep people alive or prevent accidents?

Comment (2/2003): I worked CHP enforcement in the Auburn Area for 12 years until I retired in 1998. If I remember correctly, there was, at least when I was there, a speed limit sign within a hundred feet south of Indian Hill Road. But I know there are no speed traps on Auburn-Folsom Road that fall into the Vehicle Code definition of "speed trap". If the average driver would slow down to the posted speed limits and read the other signs posted along the road instead of hanging their butts out on the edge, putting not only their lives in danger but the other roadway users, they would notice that there are advance warnings that speed is enforced by radar. Instead of crying the blues about a ticket, drive sensibly and you won't get one. If you do get one, fight it. They are not cut and dried, I've lost plenty of good tickets when it came to trial time for various reasons, I didn't take notes immediately after I wrote the ticket or the viotator put on a more convincing defense. But if you continually drive on the edge you're going to get hammered, not so much by the cops but more by your own stupidity! Fatalities from excessive speed on Auburn- Folsom Road usually resulted from the out of control drivers running off the road and killing tehmselves and/or their passengers. Other cases involved the idiot driver crossing the center line on a curve because he was going too fast and taking out some poor smuck just trying to get to work so he could feed his family. It basically boils down to this, whatever risk you are will to assume while driving you are exposing your passenger to it too and, more often than not, other highway users. You have the right to be stupid but you don't have the right to harm others through your reckless actions. From a cop's perspective a speeding ticket is the easiest to find and write, it's a no brainer because the average motorist just does not look any place but straight ahead when they're going fast, what we call tunnel vision.

Comment (6/2003): "Right On" to John Law. Everybody is in a hurry to go to work and then to go home. On the weekend they are in a hurry to give their money to Tahoe and then in a hurry to get back to the Bay area. Try and get out of a side street on Highway 50 from Riverton to Meyers. Everybody is driving in the me first mode and could care less about anybody else. They tailgate at 60 mph two car lengths behind.

Jurisdiction

Auburn, California

Speed Trap Location

Interstate 80

Nearest Reference Point

Placer Hills Road

GPS Coordinates

n/a

Time of Day

Any time of day

Level of Enforcement

High

Type of Enforcement

Radar

Date

11/2005

I 80 westbound from Placer Hills Rd. (6 miles east of Auburn) into Auburn is highly enforced. I have seen as many as seven CHP vehicles on a single onramp waiting to catch motorists coming downhill from Reno and Lake Tahoe into Sacramento and San Francisco. Long straight downhill grades from the high Sierras easily allow excess speed unless one is very careful.

Comment (7/2002): I drive this area regularly and only an idiot would drive through there at anything over 35 anyway. OK so 95% of the people driving this route are idiots. So what. Does speeding keep people alive or prevent accidents?

Comment (2/2003): I worked CHP enforcement in the Auburn Area for 12 years until I retired in 1998. If I remember correctly, there was, at least when I was there, a speed limit sign within a hundred feet south of Indian Hill Road. But I know there are no speed traps on Auburn-Folsom Road that fall into the Vehicle Code definition of "speed trap". If the average driver would slow down to the posted speed limits and read the other signs posted along the road instead of hanging their butts out on the edge, putting not only their lives in danger but the other roadway users, they would notice that there are advance warnings that speed is enforced by radar. Instead of crying the blues about a ticket, drive sensibly and you won't get one. If you do get one, fight it. They are not cut and dried, I've lost plenty of good tickets when it came to trial time for various reasons, I didn't take notes immediately after I wrote the ticket or the viotator put on a more convincing defense. But if you continually drive on the edge you're going to get hammered, not so much by the cops but more by your own stupidity! Fatalities from excessive speed on Auburn- Folsom Road usually resulted from the out of control drivers running off the road and killing tehmselves and/or their passengers. Other cases involved the idiot driver crossing the center line on a curve because he was going too fast and taking out some poor smuck just trying to get to work so he could feed his family. It basically boils down to this, whatever risk you are will to assume while driving you are exposing your passenger to it too and, more often than not, other highway users. You have the right to be stupid but you don't have the right to harm others through your reckless actions. From a cop's perspective a speeding ticket is the easiest to find and write, it's a no brainer because the average motorist just does not look any place but straight ahead when they're going fast, what we call tunnel vision.

Comment (6/2003): "Right On" to John Law. Everybody is in a hurry to go to work and then to go home. On the weekend they are in a hurry to give their money to Tahoe and then in a hurry to get back to the Bay area. Try and get out of a side street on Highway 50 from Riverton to Meyers. Everybody is driving in the me first mode and could care less about anybody else. They tailgate at 60 mph two car lengths behind.

Comment (7/2002): I drive this area regularly and only an idiot would drive through there at anything over 35 anyway. OK so 95% of the people driving this route are idiots. So what. Does speeding keep people alive or prevent accidents?

Comment (2/2003): I worked CHP enforcement in the Auburn Area for 12 years until I retired in 1998. If I remember correctly, there was, at least when I was there, a speed limit sign within a hundred feet south of Indian Hill Road. But I know there are no speed traps on Auburn-Folsom Road that fall into the Vehicle Code definition of "speed trap". If the average driver would slow down to the posted speed limits and read the other signs posted along the road instead of hanging their butts out on the edge, putting not only their lives in danger but the other roadway users, they would notice that there are advance warnings that speed is enforced by radar. Instead of crying the blues about a ticket, drive sensibly and you won't get one. If you do get one, fight it. They are not cut and dried, I've lost plenty of good tickets when it came to trial time for various reasons, I didn't take notes immediately after I wrote the ticket or the viotator put on a more convincing defense. But if you continually drive on the edge you're going to get hammered, not so much by the cops but more by your own stupidity! Fatalities from excessive speed on Auburn- Folsom Road usually resulted from the out of control drivers running off the road and killing tehmselves and/or their passengers. Other cases involved the idiot driver crossing the center line on a curve because he was going too fast and taking out some poor smuck just trying to get to work so he could feed his family. It basically boils down to this, whatever risk you are will to assume while driving you are exposing your passenger to it too and, more often than not, other highway users. You have the right to be stupid but you don't have the right to harm others through your reckless actions. From a cop's perspective a speeding ticket is the easiest to find and write, it's a no brainer because the average motorist just does not look any place but straight ahead when they're going fast, what we call tunnel vision.

Comment (6/2003): "Right On" to John Law. Everybody is in a hurry to go to work and then to go home. On the weekend they are in a hurry to give their money to Tahoe and then in a hurry to get back to the Bay area. Try and get out of a side street on Highway 50 from Riverton to Meyers. Everybody is driving in the me first mode and could care less about anybody else. They tailgate at 60 mph two car lengths behind.

Comment (7/2002): I drive this area regularly and only an idiot would drive through there at anything over 35 anyway. OK so 95% of the people driving this route are idiots. So what. Does speeding keep people alive or prevent accidents?

Comment (2/2003): I worked CHP enforcement in the Auburn Area for 12 years until I retired in 1998. If I remember correctly, there was, at least when I was there, a speed limit sign within a hundred feet south of Indian Hill Road. But I know there are no speed traps on Auburn-Folsom Road that fall into the Vehicle Code definition of "speed trap". If the average driver would slow down to the posted speed limits and read the other signs posted along the road instead of hanging their butts out on the edge, putting not only their lives in danger but the other roadway users, they would notice that there are advance warnings that speed is enforced by radar. Instead of crying the blues about a ticket, drive sensibly and you won't get one. If you do get one, fight it. They are not cut and dried, I've lost plenty of good tickets when it came to trial time for various reasons, I didn't take notes immediately after I wrote the ticket or the viotator put on a more convincing defense. But if you continually drive on the edge you're going to get hammered, not so much by the cops but more by your own stupidity! Fatalities from excessive speed on Auburn- Folsom Road usually resulted from the out of control drivers running off the road and killing tehmselves and/or their passengers. Other cases involved the idiot driver crossing the center line on a curve because he was going too fast and taking out some poor smuck just trying to get to work so he could feed his family. It basically boils down to this, whatever risk you are will to assume while driving you are exposing your passenger to it too and, more often than not, other highway users. You have the right to be stupid but you don't have the right to harm others through your reckless actions. From a cop's perspective a speeding ticket is the easiest to find and write, it's a no brainer because the average motorist just does not look any place but straight ahead when they're going fast, what we call tunnel vision.

Comment (6/2003): "Right On" to John Law. Everybody is in a hurry to go to work and then to go home. On the weekend they are in a hurry to give their money to Tahoe and then in a hurry to get back to the Bay area. Try and get out of a side street on Highway 50 from Riverton to Meyers. Everybody is driving in the me first mode and could care less about anybody else. They tailgate at 60 mph two car lengths behind.