Grove City’s Speed Trap

The Grove City Lions Club, 100 members strong, in the late 1940s urged the Grove City village council to consider establishing a “speed trap” along Broadway. Through the club’s president, the membership suggested two additional motorcycle officers be hired for one month to bring speeding under control and use fines to pay for the additional marshals. In 1939, Harrisburg Pike was better known as Harrisburg Death Pike because of the many automobile accidents. In 1940, the stretch between Briggsdale and Grove City, was referred to as the Monster at the Doorstep as the worst five-mile stretch of roadway between Cincinnati and Cleveland.