Terre Haute, Indiana Speed Traps

Because Lafayette Ave is the original Highway 41 (now called "Old 41"), State and City both hit this area very hard. Indiana State University cops even get in on the act. (Contrary to belief, college cops DO have the abilty to ticket and arrest off campus – and they love to!) There are quite a few bars along Lafayette, from Locust Street clear through North Terre Haute. Many of the bar owners have to call the police stations to have parked cop cars removed from the block. (It is illegal for police to ‘target’ bars, but they try.) One night I saw 5 cars pulled over within 3 blocks of each other, all at the same time, in the 12 Points area near Maple Avenue. There were even 2 police cars on one of the cars. That makes 6 cop cars cruising in the area. I’d definately suggest having a designated driver(!), and watching the traffic lights and your speed down that 6 mile strip of Lafayette.

Grassy car path between a cluster of trees and the side of an overpass. Impossible to see until you are right next to it. At night, you may never know someone is there unless you look for him.

Police sitting on both sides of Fruitridge, just north of the overpass. Speed posted on overpass is 30. There are about 4-5 police every morning, watching the traffic going to the high school.

Normally there are two black & whites sitting in a vacant parking lot just north of the railrod overpass on the north bound lanes. The overpass is 30mph and turns into a 45mph stretch, the 30mph is strictly enforced coming over the bridge. Most days both cars are keeping busy writing tickets.

The one way (eastward) over the Wabash River from West Terre Haute to the courthouse. They sit in the grotto parking lot looking for drivers coming back from Koyote’s.