There's a sign to tell you you're getting your picture taken, if you're not speeding by too fast to notice it. Police told the Dayton Daily News that after tracking 23,000 vehicles, the camera caught 232 speeding. The good news is that means 99% of drivers stayed at or under the 45 miles-per-hour construction speed limit. For the other 1%, your ticket could soon be in the mail.
The pictures are sent to human police officers, who look at them to decide whether the driver should get an $85 ticket. Lest you worry it’s a money collection scheme, police say they’ve had lots of complaints about speeders in the construction zone. And instead of trying to pull over cars and block lanes of traffic in the construction zone, they decided on a camera. Anyone who’s been stuck in the awful traffic from any fender-bender can appreciate that.
Steve Bennish, Gabrielle Enright and Chuck Hamlin contributed to this story.