Do you live near the 25 biggest speeding traps in the U.S. and Canada? Penske Automotive Group highly recommends safe, undistracted driving but we do realize that not everyone can refrain from the need for speed sometimes. Don’t worry speeders, you are in good company. National Motorist Association has just released a list of the top 25 cities with the most speed traps. We were surprised to see surrounding areas around Penske Automotive Group Headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. was at the top of the list.
The NMA ran this survey since Sept. 2009 with the goal to help drivers identify where the speed limit is arbitrarily low for having a faster and heavier traffic flow. The top 25 list was calculated by the number of speed traps per 100,000 residents in the municipality.
Here’s the remainder of the top 25 list
- Livonia, Michigan: 27.9 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada: 17.6 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Orlando, Florida: 17.2 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Las Vegas, Nevada: 11.1 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Denver, Colorado: 10.9 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Reno, Nevada: 10.4 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Tampa, Florida: 8.9 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Colorado Springs, Colorado: 7.2 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Austin, Texas: 6.1 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Sarasota, Florida: 6.1 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Portland, Oregon: 5.8 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Jacksonville, Florida: 5.4 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- San Antonio, Texas: 5.3 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Fresno, California: 5.0 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Hamilton, Ontario: 5.0 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- New Orleans, Louisiana: 4.7 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Toronto, Ontario: 4.7 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Houston, Texas: 4.0 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Edmonton, Alberta: 3.3 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- San Diego, California: 3.2 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Indianapolis, Indiana: 3.2 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- San Jose, California: 3.1 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Chicago, Illinois: 1.9 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- Los Angeles, California: 1.6 speed traps per 100,000 residents
- New York, New York: 0.9 speed traps per 100,000 residents
What do you think? Are these speed traps there as a lucrative business for small towns with lots of tourists passing through? Where have you encountered speed traps in recent years? Do you think it’s fair to warn drivers where they might be?
