People v. Flaxman

Opinion

WENKE, J.

—Appellant was convicted of violating Vehicle Code section 22348, subdivision (a), driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than 55 miles-per-hour in an area posted for 40 miles-per-hour. The People’s evidence consisted of the testimony of a single police officer who relied totally on a reading from a radar device.

Briefly stated, appellant’s grounds for appeal are: (a) that any evidence as to a radar reading was inadmissible as incompetent because there was no justification of the posted speed limit by means of an engineering and traffic survey as required by…