Red-Light Cameras Capture Highlight Reel of Florida Car Crashes

• What about the one who DO STOP on red and get a ticket anyway?

• Cameras give a false sense of security, because even with high fines (example: $500 in California) they don't stop the real late runners - like in this video of accidents the cameras didn't prevent! Most real late runners don't do it on purpose - they fail to see the signal, because they are lost, unfamiliar with the area, distracted, or impaired. To stop the late runners, local traffic engineers need to make high-accident intersections more obvious, improve the visual cues that say, "You are coming to an important intersection." Florida's DOT found that improved pavement markings (plain old paint!) cut running by up to 74%, without installing cameras - thus without the side effect of increased rearenders. Also make the signal lights brighter, bigger in diameter, add backboards to them, and place the poles on the NEAR side of the intersection, not so far away. Put brighter bulbs in the street lights at intersections. Put up lighted name signs, for the cross streets. Longer yellows (which drop violations by 2/3, and the effect is permanent) and improved visual cues are easy and cheap to do, so can be done all over town, unlike cameras, which are expensive and can drive shopper and tourists away.

• To think that people complain about these cameras yet only get a ticket with no points on their license and do not have to deal with an encounter from the all to often corrupt police in South Florida is absurd. I see people intentionally run red lights on a weekly basis and quite frankly I would be giddy if I knew they received tickets for such offenses.

• More please.

• Morons on tape.  It makes it oh so hard to claim the other guy did it.  I sincerely wish that each of those fools got at least a month in jail for their utter lack of regard for the other people on the road.  10 lashes would be even better. 

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