CLEVELAND -- We fear speed traps, and try to avoid them whenever we can.

But you are more likely to be nabbed by police in certain locations if you ask some motorists.

NewsChannel5 asked area residents who said, "I know there's a lot of places in Cleveland Heights."

Another said, "In Independence along 77."

"In Bratenahl, on the west side everywhere," another said.

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5 On Your Side John Kosich set out to find out by obtaining records from several northeast Ohio police departments and poured over tens of thousands of speeding tickets they issued.

Kosich crunched the numbers and found the areas in Cleveland and Akron where tickets are more likely to be issued.

In Summit County, in Akron, 5,400 speeding tickets were issued last year. What surprised WEWS was almost a quarter of them could be traced to roughly one mile of Akron roadway along state Route 8.

The first spot is a half-mile stretch of Route 8 from Buchtel Avenue north to Perkins Street, where a total of 570 speeding tickets were written in 2005.

Seventy percent of them were at Forge Street.

Akron's other speed trap is on the west side of town along Interstate 77 between Copley Road and Stoner Street.

For Cleveland, more than 85,000 violations were issued. About 20,000 of them were for speeding, but this is less than the 45,000 tickets issue in 2001 for speeding.

In Cleveland, only 15 tickets separate No. 5 through 3. Broadway and Baxter in Slavic Village in at No. 5 with 403 tickets.

No. 4 was East 79th and Kinsman Avenue, which had 11 tickets more.

No. 3 had 418 tickets at Lorain and Carnegie avenues.

No. 2 was East 105th Street and Park Lane, where 468 tickets were issued.

The No. 1 spot was West 65th Street and Clark Avenue, where 529 tickets were issued.

Although these numbers are big, they will likely dwarf when compared to the number of tickets that were issued by catching speeders. In the first month, 2,300 were nabbed. If so, it would mean more tickets would be issued from this one spot than all officers wrote in the entire city last year, Kosich reported.

In Euclid, there were some other interesting facts uncovered.

At Interstate 90 in Euclid, drivers were nearly three times more likely to get a speeding ticket going east than west.

Kosich reported there's a similar statistic in Rocky River, where nearly 80 percent of tickets written on I-90 last year were for drivers heading westbound.

The reason is likely that construction zones left only a few places to safely put officers.

"Construction made it difficult and for awhile we backed off because it wasn't safe to sit down there but because we did that we suffered through three terrible accidents down there so we had to increase enforcement," said Terry Hudec, of the Rocky River Police Department.