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Police get new weapon against speeders

Amanda Hartle
Staff Writer
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Infrared technology makes changing television channels remotely, forecasting weather accurately and controlling computers wirelessly possible.

In Moon Township, officials hope it will also slow down speeding drivers.

Within the next month, township police officers will be trained in using a device, which only two other area municipalities employ against speeders.

ENRADD, a wireless speed detection device, shoots infrared beams across roadways, according to Police Chief Leo McCarthy.

"The vehicle starts electronic calibration (of a computerized stopwatch) and the vehicle stops it. Then (the device) sends a wireless signal to a chase vehicle where an officer can look and see what the vehicle's speed is and go after violator."

The unobtrusive signal can shoot nearly half a mile, but police officers must be closer to accurately identify a speeding vehicle.

Chasing a speeding driver and issuing a ticket or warning become the only human aspects in the equation, lowering error possibilities, says McCarthy.

"It's better because it starts and stops. It isn't done physically by officers."

The device will become another tool in officers' arsenal against traffic violations along with lines painted across roadways where police officers sit nearby with thumbs clicking stop watches or fingers flipping VASCAR switches.

Both of these techniques, like ENRADD, measure time taken to travel the distance alloted by lines rather than vehicle speed.

However, both depend on an officer's visual and motor aptitudes for a correct reading, said McCarthy.

"Naturally, if you have someone with poor motor skills or visual capabilities, they may switch the device improperly, and the speed may be wrong. I believe these (techniques) are highly accurate with a well-trained, healthy officer."

The officers' other technique is the pace method -- where an officer follows a vehicle for three-tenths of a mile and uses their odometer to gauge speed, depends on motor skills and proper odometer calibration.

Odometers undergo calibration every 60 days like other speed-control devices including the new one expected for delivery March 22.

The department will not pay for ENRADD calibrations the first year. The $5065 state Department of Community and Economic Development grant covers the expense as well as the device itself and training for all township officers, according to McCarthy.

Moon's officers will be the third area force to use the device, joining Allegheny County's Jefferson Hills Borough Police Department and Butler County's Cranberry Township Police Department.

In Cranberry, Corporal Dan Hahn, has used the device for several years on main roadways like Route 19, secondary roads and in school zones with the only problem being if multiple cars hit the infrared beam.

"It's a very simple machine to work and the car does all the work. It's a fantastic unit," Hahn said.

Using the ENRADD device, township manager Greg Smith said, arms police officers with another weapon against a prevailing community gripe.

"One of the major complaints in Moon Township is speeding throughout the community. When we have the device and officers are trained, it will be put into use. It should make our community safer," said Smith.


which means no speeding for the orange celica

[alltracman78]

http://www.motorists.com/

[Culpable04]

Sometimes is nice to have an slow car.


NEPTUNE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) _ Three young men were killed and two people hospitalized after what authorities said was a drag race gone bad.

Three cars _ a 1988 Mazda 626 Turbo, a 1993 Honda Accord and a 1991 Honda Civic _ raced westward on Wednesday night at speeds well over 65 mph on a stretch of state Route 33 with a posted speed limit of 45 mph, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

It all came to a deadly halt at about 8:45 p.m. when a 2005 Acura TSX, heading the other way on Route 33, started to make a lawful left turn onto West Bangs Avenue, and was broadsided by the Mazda, authorities said.

The crash killed three passengers in the Mazda, including two brothers, Jesse Otero, 19, and Velentin Oterocruz Jr., 20. John Richardson Jr., 20, was also dead. All were from Neptune Township.

The driver of the Mazda, 19-year-old Nelson Villanueva of Neptune Township was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition Thursday.

The driver of the Acura, Lazary Roseboro, 35, of Farmingdale, was in fair condition at Jersey Shore.

The Mazda's fourth passenger, Robert Rodriquez, 20, of Ocean Township, didn't require a hospital stay, according to the prosecutor's office.

The prosecutor's office said Thursday that it was charging Villanueva with disorderly persons and motor vehicle offenses related to the racing. Similar charges were pending against the Honda Accord's driver, 24-year-old Carlos Ortiz of Neptune Township, and the Honda Civic's driver, 22-year-old Miguel Marrero, of Neptune Township. All three face fines and jail time if convicted.

There may be further charges brought, Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin said.

It has been a deadly year so far for car crashes involving young people in the Jersey shore area.

Three Freehold High School students, along with a 68-year-old woman, were killed in January in an after-school accident that authorities say involved speeding.

Last week, a brother and sister were killed on a snowy morning while driving to school at Jackson Memorial High School.

[x_itchy_b_x]

That sucks i'm glad it not around here.. yet.

Honestly, the future of how we live is going to be even more so radically changed by new technology. I bet not to far from now we will be living in demolition mans time.

[Consynx]

. . .that's kinda bull****, i wonder how fast a Mini will be going in it's mind compared to a limo...

sounds like gay

[orvillescelica]

Are you serious? this is the latest technology? A radar or laser gun is more high tech than using the timing between two infrared beams.

In addition, it needs to be stationary. From what i read in the article, two infrared lasers shoot across the road to two detectors. a passing car hits the first laser, then hits the second laser X seconds later. Since the distance between the two is fixed, they can determine your speed based on the time between the two lasers were triggered. If it calculates a speed above the speed limit, it alerts a cop down the road.

So if you know where they set this thing up, then all you need to do is jut not speed there.

[Consynx]

ah, gotcha.
was thinking that one unit did it all, not two.

ehhhh, if this laser does such long dist., how does it tell b/t oncoming traffic and ongoing?
guessing that they have that at least figured out, they better put cameras where those things are going to be mounted, because if i lived in that area i'd trash em

[FreddyTheOthaMea...]

Some laws really suck.. like in certain parts of colorado we have gatso poles (where theres a camera that takes pictures of people that speed, run lights etc etc) but the bad thing about it is that no one really mans them or anything.. i got a 75 dollar ticket cause i hit a patch of ice and slid halfway thru an intersection (I even backed up into my lane i was in too... grrr)