A 79 year old woman from Hempfield, Pennsylvania was killed two years ago (2008), on State Route 130. There was a criminal investigation, and they found out that the speed limit signs were not posted properly.

John Peck who is the Westmoreland County District attorney, says the driver who killed the 79 year old woman will not been charged with anything because the 30 miles per hour signs were too far apart.

Signs have been mandated to be every half mile. But, interestingly, there is no Pennsylvania doesn’t have a law that has workers go out and inspect the road and check the roads for speed limit signs. The only time  the states check speed limits on state roads for greater than 35 miles per hour.

It’s up to the little town to look over state roads with speed limits less than 45 miles per hour

PennDot has no program designed to check road signs. The job to check the signs to maintenance crews, drivers who use the roads and report any problem.

The thing that brought to the publics attention started 6 years ago. Prosecutors seeking a conviction for a homicide that prosecutors said the driver who was at fault because he was driving 54 miles per hour in a 25 miles per hour zone because the road was improperly posted.