If you’re speeding in Newtown or Wrightstown, Bucks County, PA, you’ve been warned…

Jan 21st, 2009 | By Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. | Category: Blogs, PA & NJ Speed Traps

On Monday, January 12, 2009 Newtown Township’s Police Chief told Wrightstown Township supervisors that officers from his force will be conducting truck checkpoints at least once a week in Wrightstown, PA. Since Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, PA doesn’t have its own police force; Wrightstown has contracted with Newtown Township to provide protection.

The Wrightstown, Bucks County, PA speed traps will focus on speeding trucks. Many quarry trucks servicing construction sites all over the Delaware Valley travel through Newtown, PA and Wrightstown, PA to pick up their loads of gravel used for paving. These 80,000 lb. quarry trucks regularly travel narrow Bucks County roads at high rates of speed.

I have personally witnessed a quarry truck negligently dump gravel over the road. After repeated requests by the driver of the car behind the truck, the driver of this particular quarry truck did not stop the truck.

Supervision by the local Newtown Township Police Department will hopefully make these narrow Bucks County roads safer for all.