After ceasing to issue traffic citations in 2021, a village well-known as a Franklin County speed trap is at it again.
The village of Brice, situated south of Reynoldsburg and west of Pickerington, is again using automated cameras to crack down on speeders along Brice Road, which sees an average of 30,000 cars a day.
And those cameras have been busy. The village — home to only 93 people, according to the 2020 census — has issued roughly 3,000 speeding tickets since Aug. 20, the first day the cameras were active, according to Police Chief Delano “Bud” Bauchmoyer.
“We have been trying for 30 years to get people to slow down, and I think they go down Brice Road to avoid the traffic on Gender (Road), and they think it’s a racetrack or something,” Brice Mayor John Mathys said.
For more than a decade, Brice has had a reputation as a speed trap. Despite being only 1.2 square miles, the village’s officers were issuing as many traffic citations as some big Columbus suburbs more than a decade ago. For example, in 2011, Brice handled 555 traffic cases, The Dispatch previously reported.