Road Warrior

 

The in basket: My old reporter’s instinct kicked in the afternoon of Wednesday, March 3, when I saw a large white State Patrol SUV with four or five cars stopped in a row along Highway 304 leading into Bremerton. It’s not something you see every day and I set out to learn what was going on.

Had they been going the other way, I might have taken it for an HOV lane enforcement, but there is no HOV lane inbound. 

The out basket: Krista Hedstrom of the local WSP detachment said it was a speeding enforcement. The reason it looked like the SUV had stopped so many cars at once is probably that its trooper had help. An unmarked silver WSP sedan also was working the enforcement and it was probably one of the cars that appeared to have been stopped.  

She said the local detachment has a few such large SUV patrol vehicles, used for commercial enforcement and by troopers who are 6-foot-4 or taller.

I know a fellow who says he considers the “real” speed limit between Gorst and Bremerton to be 80 mph, because he regularly does that there without getting caught.

I, myself, regard it to be 55 or 60 mph, for the same reason. The posted speed limit is 50, and 45 where I saw the line of stopped cars March 3.

Then the morning of March 13, there were four WSP cars with speeders stopped on northbound Highway 3 between Gorst and Bremerton. It was an obvious speed enforcement and will serve as a warning to me to watch my speed there. I doubt that the troopers were stopping cars for 5-over (they usually don’t), but you never know. 

Tags: 304, State Patrol, SUV

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