How do you stop neighborhood speeders?

I am in agreement with a lot of the others. I would call my local police department and tell them what is going on. If they don't seem to react to your phone call write a letter explaining your concern. I would not only send a letter to the police department but I would also send letters to the town counsel and the mayor. Have some of your neighbors send letter as well. Showing that others in the neighborhood are just as concerned.

Submit a formal complaint to your Environmental Control Enforcement department. They'll investigate any alleged cases that affect the local environment eg. noise pollution, trash, graffiti etc.

If you have a video camera, try catching him on tape doing this, maybe two times and if you can add the date and time that would be perfect. Call the police, explain to them that you have on tape of this guy flying into his driveway everyday. Tell them you want this guy stopped before a child gets hurt or even worse killed. If the cops won't do anything, keep bugging them until you get someone to come out. If that means calling every day, then so be it. Even without catching him on tape, keep calling. Good Luck, and keep everyone updated.

slash his tires...yeah thats about the only thing that will work. my mom lives on a street with a 4 way crossroad....every single other street has a stop sign for at least one direction...my sister has gotten into a wreck there because people just drive through the 4 way like nothing, not even slowing down to see if people are coming from the other way. one time people got into wrecks within 1 week of each other...so insteadof putting a stop sign up they put a drive slow...children sign...and thats it...we have called the cops,city council...nothing...and there are ALOT of kids around there

I don't know a good answer for how to handle this, as we have the same problem in our neighborhood! There are 7 small children on our street and this one neighbor FLIES down the street continuously. He turns onto our street so fast and cuts the corner....he is on the wrong side of the road when he enters the street! One day he is going to round that corner and hit someone head on and kill them. I just hope it isn't one of my teen drivers. I called the city police and they said, "Unless we are there and see it happen we can't do anything. We will increase our patrols in that neighborhood." They drive through here each morning around 7AM!!!!! Of course they have never been present when he has been driving like a maniac.

Maybe the neighborhood should rally up and put speed bumps? The guy should know that it is a neighborhood with children, cul-de-sac or not, he should drive slowly in a residential neighborhood. You can notify the cops if he is speeding over the allowed limit on a residenial street...I think it should not exceed 15mph in most cases.

You could always call the police, and if that dosen't help then try jamming a knife in their tires ;-)

There is no reason the children should not be able to play in the street, it is their neighborhood as well. If talking civilly to him does not help then I would ask the police to get involved. Perhaps a petition signed by the neighborhood would make him aware that you all are serious. This is one of my pet peeves and believe me there are things you can do to correct it. Ask the authorities.

well you should ask the police to help i guess

We live in a fairly large neighborhood, and we are on one of the main roads in and out. It's a fairly straight road and people love to fly down it at all times of the day. We have a lot of children in here too. It makes me so mad to see them speed through here. We get out in a front yard and sit in chairs and when people fly by, we scream at them to slow down, it's funny sometimes to see their surprised looks that someone would actually scream at them. My husband has a guy stop one day and tell him to shut up, he had the right to drive any way he wanted to, my husband told him he didn't have the right to speed through the neighborhood without any regards to anyone else, then they guy threatened to call the police on us, this after the guy threatened to kick my husbands rear end. I called instead and they went to talk to him, he rarely drives past our house any more and when he does, it's real slow. I've even taken down tag numbers and given the list to the police.

I would say that because he has not taken any notice of what you are saying to him, it would be time to tell the police. Also if your neighbours are in agreement with you, perhaps somebody may have a camcorder so you can video him speeding down the street, then take that to the police to show them what you have to put up with. In my opinion this is something that you have to deal with before something terrible happens.

I am sorry I didn't notice this sooner. My daughter lives in a cul-de-sac. Her kids are now past the age when they play ball in the street but I know what I would have done had this man lived there and been doing his speeding when they were. Every time he came into the cul-de-sac at a high rate of speed I would have called the police and kept calling every time until they took some action against him. He needs to be stopped before some poor innocent child is either killed or badly injured by this maniac driver.

This guy is an insensitive speed maniac. Excuse me for the terminology,but I think this is how best to describe him. I think it is just a matter of time before something happens that would eventually do him in. Majority of suggestions here is for police assistance which is the right thing to do. Voice your community's concern to the authorities and then see what happens.

Just call the cops, allow them to set up hidden location, and watch him get caught. Sooner or later he'll get the idea.