Another Seattle Police 'Speeder of the Day' ... 84 mph on the bridge

Penny March 15, 2011 (4:02 pm)

They hang out by the Aurora Bridge too!

JLS March 15, 2011 (4:07 pm)

Please, please, please come to 35th soon! Insane amount of speeding and tailgating!

jsm March 15, 2011 (4:09 pm)

The aggressive driving unit guys are actually kinda creepy.

I had one of the pursuit chargers pull me over a while back for a minor traffic infraction (that was thrown out in court) and I felt like the guy was going to pull me out of the car and cuff me.

Give police a special name and they get very aggressive themselves.

While it may be a good idea, the behavior of the aggressive driving unit is bad PR for Seattle police.

hopey March 15, 2011 (4:09 pm)

You do realize that the sergeant who leads that squad lives in West Seattle? He used to be my neighbor until we moved.

hopey March 15, 2011 (4:10 pm)

You do realize that the sergeant who leads the ADRT squad lives in West Seattle?

Vanessa March 15, 2011 (4:32 pm)

“BOOK EM, DANO”

james1 March 15, 2011 (4:50 pm)

It would be interesting to know how many high speeds on the Bridge are ferry boat commuters?

I got stopped by an officer in a Dodge Charger. I was given a warning and found the officer to be very professional.

coffee March 15, 2011 (4:55 pm)

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE sit at the base of the Bridge when you exit Delridge and ticket there. OMG the rate of speed goind down Delridge is WAY to fast. It would help if they ticketed the Metro 120s that go by no less than 60 MPH. My building SHAKES everytime they go by.

Mags March 15, 2011 (4:57 pm)

Too bad they didn’t catch silver Beemer who was speeding and weaving on the WS Bridge westbound today around 1:30 pm. I thought it was ironic he was tailgating me then zooming all over cutting other cars off–just to end up right next to me at the left turn light at 35th.

4thGenWestSide March 15, 2011 (5:09 pm)

Besides speeders, the police need to start an old peoples / Canadian driving unit, pulling over all of the blue hairs that go way too slow under the limit. They are way more irritating. Just sayin.

4thGenWestSide March 15, 2011 (5:09 pm)

Besides speeders, the police need to start an old peoples / Canadian driving unit, pulling over all of the blue hairs and cone heads that go way too slow under the limit. They are way more irritating. Just sayin.

jiggers March 15, 2011 (5:18 pm)

This is fun! I hope SPD can give the W.S.B. a daily high speed number and maybe the speeders name too.:)

samson March 15, 2011 (5:52 pm)

hope that driver who went 84 mph – better take her/his license away! WHY 84 mph? is there any emergency? if not, what’s the purpose of speeding!

35th Ave NEEEEEEEEDS SPD to monitor!! its so crazy and I guess we need to complain to SPD until they get tired and check speeders!!!

Anyone volunteer to film @35th as I dont have videocamera to film? that would be a good idea and show the film to SPD – LOOK!!

Concerned Citizen March 15, 2011 (6:29 pm)

Wish I had a video cam! I would willingly sit on 35th and take pictures of speeders! Do they show up in the dark about 6:30 am! ’cause that’s when they are realllllly going like a bat outa’ @#!!

I have to turn left at the Mount and God help me! Sometimes I think I’m going to be killed!!!

Karl March 15, 2011 (7:43 pm)

Motor vehicle accident Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 6:50 pm 47th Ave SW and SW Admiral Way. Vehicles traveling westbound on Admiral and a pedestrian crossing Admiral northbound. Pedestrian was half way across Admiral displaying an orange safety flag when the silver SUV stopped at the crosswalk. The maroon Jeep failed to stop and rear ended the SUV into the crosswalk. No apparent injuries. SPD was called.

The signage and paint are not working. We need a light.

austin March 15, 2011 (8:06 pm)

Lights don’t solve stupid.

Jiggers March 15, 2011 (8:30 pm)

Yeah..but a picture of the speeder here on the blog would be very embarrassing.

Ricky Bobby March 15, 2011 (9:17 pm)

Okay, we get it slow Seattle people, going 5 miles over the limit is the same as mentally deranged to you. Thank you so much for making sure you are driving the speed limit side by side everywhere around town to save us from ourselves.

JB March 15, 2011 (9:30 pm)

Hey, thanks for the hyperbole Ricky Bobby! Time for a math quiz. What is 84 – 45? What is 41 – 35? OK, now let’s move on to physics. Newton’s second law of motion states, F = ma, where F is Force, m is mass, and a is acceleration. What is the acceleration of a 165lb male in a crosswalk when struck by a 3,000+ lbs SUV going 10mph, because the SUV just got rear-ended by a speeder in a residential zone? Got the picture; we want our neighborhoods safe from the likes of you.

old timer March 15, 2011 (10:05 pm)

The City needs cash, and I do not want to pay any more tax.
So –
Speed cams, every 1/8th mile.
And for the Vegas crowd, at any given time, 30% of them will be
turned off.
A random kind of thing.
Are you feeling lucky?
Oh – to that cam ticket, add a moving violation and a 50% tax on any insurance premium increases that result.
Payable by the insurance company of course.

datamuse March 15, 2011 (10:28 pm)

Dear Ricky Bobby,
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Leave earlier.

J242 March 15, 2011 (10:36 pm)

I’m surprised we haven’t seen any people on here whining about how the WSB “should be a 60mph zone” yet like we saw on the ticket report regarding Admiral hill.

wsfwy60 March 16, 2011 (12:20 am)

Good idea J242, the West Seattle Freeway should again be so named, and set to 60mph between 99 and the steel mill. I agree it should remain 35 on the Spokane viaduct and Fauntleroy.

wsfwy60 March 16, 2011 (12:25 am)

…and the guy doing 84 would still be 24 over! …..Seriously, the speeder at 84 is per se reckless driving and should have been charged with reckless in addition to the speed. A traffic officer has to return to writing the next hard copy – but not for that would also likely impound the vehicle and book the driver into jail.

Dill March 16, 2011 (12:55 am)

Bridge speed is 45? 84mph is 39 over the speed limit.

Stunning, but not unbelievable. 45 is a snail’s pace on the bridge (freeway).

miws March 16, 2011 (8:34 am)

wsfwy60, if the speed limit was raised to 60, within the area you suggest, you’d have everybody literally slamming on their brakes to be able to reduce their speed to the 35-40 that it would be reduced to in the area of the steel mill, and to be able to safely negotiate that curve, that when the Fauntleroy Expressway was designed in the early to mid ’60’s, was probably designed for around 40mph.

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Problem is, many, if not most drivers would likely be traveling at 65-70 in the 60 zone, which would make it even harder to slow down to 40 at the steel mill.

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I haven’t been outside of West Seattle for quite some time, to where it would bring me back during during the afternoon rush, but I remember from my then 20+ years of daily commuting downtown and back, pre-June of ’98, it wasn’t unheard of for traffic to get backed up westbound, beyond the pedestrian overpass, and that can be a sudden surprise coming around the curve above the steel mill. There’s also the curve beyond the ped overpass, which is even more likely to have stopped traffic hidden around it.

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I can only imagine that the backups occur more often nowadays.

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Mike

Mike March 16, 2011 (9:36 am)

Go get ’em, SPD! Love to see cars pulled over on Admiral Way. Wish there was more enforcement in evening and weekend hours.

k2 March 16, 2011 (10:00 am)

tell to come to 26th and brandon…people like to fly up and down that street.

Neighbor March 16, 2011 (10:11 am)

Thank you SPD!!! Can I request that you are also on Admiral and the bridge when the high school lets out. The kids have no concept of how fast they are going all the while they are either on the phone or texting. It’s a crap shoot between them and the parents driving like juju to pick up their kids from the elementary school. 2-3pm would be helpful.

bmw335i March 16, 2011 (10:40 am)

Catch me if you can suckers!!! And when you do – i just pay my attorney the $200 to get the charges dropped!!! No revenue for you!!!

ps – hey prius – get out of my way!!!

josh March 16, 2011 (10:41 am)

Surprised there aren’t more people defending the 84 mph driver with such gems as “I have to ride my brakes to keep it at 45 on the WSB” or “my car naturally speeds up to 84 mph on the downslope”.

Blake March 16, 2011 (10:41 am)

“The high speed was 41 mph in the posted 30 mph zone”

–>That’s really not that bad. I’ve always stated that speed limits are too low. Modern cars are able to handle these speeds easily.

miws March 16, 2011 (12:40 pm)

But Blake, modern pedestrians and bicyclists are not able to handle the impacts of collisions with the modern vehicles, especially the larger, heavier ones, when they are traveling at those faster speeds.

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Mike

Obadalah March 16, 2011 (12:53 pm)

bmw335i

You are the reason. Get over yourself and play nice. Your mommy should take away your toy, ya sick-o!

Think you will get out of it when you kill somebody?

Genesee Hill March 16, 2011 (1:48 pm)

bmw335i;

Ah, a run of the mill Honda Accord would blow the doors off your ride! ROFLAO. Plus, I read those turbo-charged Inline 6s aren’t the most reliable engines on earth. ROFLAO.

Lamers March 16, 2011 (4:16 pm)

The speed on the bridge used to be 50-55 which was ok during rush hour. I generally do about 60 as 40 is way too slow to deal. Nothing against slower drivers though, just saying. The turn by the mill used to be about 40-45 which was ok too as 50 was good for me there especially in the winter.

Cell phones and the like are making driving a crazy nightmare more than speeders though. I ride motorcycle somy road awareness I uncanny. I guess I pay way too much attention I’m not so much worried about the speeders as most of them aren’t distracted nor can be and live. It’s the distracted drivers disguised doing the speed limit while texting, checking emails, chatting with passengers and kids or staring off into space, daydreaming about something else completely unaware that they are bogging down traffic or the traffic situation around them that scares me. It’s funny to see them thinking they’re being polite and courteous when they are actually leaving a cushion for the car in front of them, watching for cops as they fumble around with something other than the steering wheel. Some of them are posting here even. You know who you are!

The police is a whole other story. While their reps are not stellar with that mardi gras situation a bit ago, shooting people wrongfully, looking for crooks in one apt but busting into the wrong apt killing pets which has happened a few times in west seattle

Lamers March 16, 2011 (4:41 pm)

The speed on the bridge used to be 50-55 which was ok during rush hour. I generally do about 60 as 40 is way too slow to deal. Nothing against slower drivers though, just saying. The turn by the mill used to be about 40-45 which was ok too as 50 was good for me there especially in the winter.

Cell phones and the like are making driving a crazy nightmare more than speeders though. I ride motorcycle somy road awareness I uncanny. I guess I pay way too much attention I’m not so much worried about the speeders as most of them aren’t distracted nor can be and live. It’s the distracted drivers disguised doing the speed limit while texting, checking emails, chatting with passengers and kids or staring off into space, daydreaming about something else completely unaware that they are bogging down traffic or the traffic situation around them that scares me. It’s funny to see them thinking they’re being polite and courteous when they are actually leaving a cushion for the car in front of them, watching for cops as they fumble around with something other than the steering wheel. Some of them are posting here even. You know who you are!

The police is a whole other story. While their reps are not stellar with that mardi gras situation a bit ago, shooting people wrongfully, looking for crooks in one apt but busting into the wrong apt killing pets which has happened a few times in west seattle. They’re up against the wall really and I was still behind them after shooting the wood wittler downtown til I saw the video. But their egos are mostly out of control as is their lack of fear for reprimand. But the city needs to get the money back they lose in tax breaks for businesses so… just think of the revenue they’d create ticketing distracted drivers and cars with illegal tint on the driver and copilot windows, people too old to drive and distracted drivers. They could create a whole unit for them and fund it with the ticket revenue and help pay for our new infrastructure construction, retrofits and repairs.

Truly you all must recognize recognize that speeders are in the minority amongst all the other crap I’ve mentioned. I’m all for stopping at crosswalks for pedestrians(that make themselves seen), slowing for school areas and so on. I’m even for ticketing the ones going 30 over AMBIENT traffic but being a biker it’s a necessary evil to get clear of distracted drivers.

Soooooo, what do y’all think. Less than serious and un thought out will beignored mind you;)

me March 16, 2011 (5:18 pm)

coffee says…”It would help if they ticketed the Metro 120s that go by no less than 60 MPH. My building SHAKES everytime they go by.”

Interesting comment. I ocassionally drive the 120 and you can’t exit the bridge to Delridge doing 60 mph. The law of physics alone would slam the bus in the the bridge abutment. I come down the bridge onto Delridge doing 30 and when you hits the bumps in a 70,000 pound articulated bus it bounces alot, at 60 mph an operator would be able to control the coach. Your building shakes because there is a 70000 plus pound vehicle going by.

My comment is solely my view, not intended to portray the view of the county.