Somers Traffic Ticket Lawyer

Somers, Connecticut

Somers sits at the northern edge of Tolland County, pressed against the Massachusetts line in the rolling farm country northeast of Hartford. Its origins straddle the old colonial border: men from Enfield settled the area permanently in 1713, and the town was incorporated in 1734 by the General Court of Massachusetts, which named it for Lord John Somers of England. Only in 1749, after a long-running boundary dispute, was Somers transferred to Connecticut — a history that still shows in its position as a Massachusetts-bordering town tied closely to the Springfield area.

For most of its history Somers has been a farming town. Grain and lumber milling came first, and the fertile meadows along the Scantic River supported the potato, tobacco, and dairy farms that became the backbone of the local economy. Small industry took hold too, most notably the Billings Satinette Mill, established on the Scantic in 1839, around which the village of Somersville grew. But agriculture always remained central, and much of Somers is still open farmland and woods, with the Scantic River State Park preserving a stretch of the river corridor.

In the modern era Somers has also become known for a very different institution: it is the site of state correctional facilities, including the Osborn Correctional Institution, which sit on the town’s outskirts and are a significant local employer. Apart from that, Somers remains a quiet, rural-suburban community of farms, a historic village center, and the country roads that connect it to Enfield, Stafford, and the Massachusetts towns just over the line.

The town’s traffic runs on a pair of state routes. Route 83 crosses Somers north and south, the main connection between Vernon and the Massachusetts line, while Route 190 runs east and west between Enfield and Stafford. These roads carry steady commuter and through traffic and see periodic enforcement, with citations turning up along the busier stretches. We follow these roads and the equipment used along them, which is generally where the violations described below begin.