tired of hitting red lights and hoping that there no camers?

[Dirty Octopus™]

STOP.
just stop being scared then.
simple as that

damn.... is this what IA WL come to? Useless vent threads about? CHeese and RicE!

[Jaimecbr900]

Is it me or is there a lot of misinformation on IA lately?


Red light cameras do indeed keep people from running red lights. I see it every single day of my life. Why? Because I drive by several intersections, one which used to be one of the worst ever for people running red lights, and people do indeed have their guard up and tend NOT to run the light since they know it's there. Matter of fact, often times people slam on their brakes at the mere sight of yellow now when they used to just plow right thru before. This is my only complaint about them. They cause accidents from people that freak out about them.

My wife got one, in the exact same intersection mentioned above, and she totally deserved it. It was not even close. The ticket came in the mail and had a pic of her car, tag, the amt of time the light was red BEFORE she entered the intersection, her speed, etc. There was no debating it, and since I was literally right behind her and STOPPED....I knew she blew the light. Called her on the cell and told her so.

My point for that little story is that to my knowledge the cameras don't give every single person that comes close a ticket. I think it has to be pretty obvious and blatant. If you've already entered the intersection, it will not give you one. It's happened to me at that same intersection, like I said I drive thru it everyday, several times before where I went thru the intersection just as it turned yellow or was flaming yellow and have so far never gotten a ticket.

Bottomline? Don't run red lights and you won't have anything to worry about.

[civic95]

Bottomline? Don't run red lights and you won't have anything to worry about.

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