When we requested data from the Denver Police Department for the ten metro-area intersections with the most accidents, as shared in a recent post, we also asked for information about the ten spots that generated the most speeding citations. What the DPD provided, however, was a massive spreadsheet that listed all the speeding violations recorded in Denver between January 1 and March 6, 2017 — more than 4,500 of them — rather than a straightforward top-ten list.
The reason DPD technicians didn't sort the info, as explained by spokesman Doug Schepman, is that the items, assembled from court data, aren't consistent. Some are entered by intersection, others by block number, with references to directions (westbound, eastbound, etc.) and even spelling varying widely from incident to incident.
Nonetheless, we've tried our best to make sense of this enormous numbers pileup. The results are below, and while we can't say definitively that these ten street locations qualify as the biggest speed traps in Denver during the first two months-plus of the year, it's clear that a lot of citations were handed out in these areas over that span, with three of them topping the 100-ticket mark by our very conservative calculations.
Continue to see the ten locations, as illustrated by screen captures from Google Maps. That's followed by the DPD spreadsheet, so you look up streets near you where easing off the gas would probably be a good idea.
Location: Colfax and Tennyson
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 6: At least 166
Location: E-470 ramp to Peña Boulevard
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 6: At least 108
Location: Park Avenue and Globeville
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 104
Location: Mississippi at Tejon
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 88
Location: 4100 block of Lowell
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 73
Continue to see five more of the biggest speed traps in Denver between January 1 and March 6, 2017.
Location: 4000 block of Monaco
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 60
Location: 6th and Federal
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 52
Location: 0 block of Santa Fe
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 47
Location: 400 block of Broadway
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 43
Location: 100 block of University
Number of citations issued between January 1 and March 5: At least 37.
Denver Speeding Tickets: January 1-March 6, 2017
