Pete McCluskey.
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Study done in Australia which I'm sure applies worldwide.
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Doug we are talking about speed cameras, not red light cameras. Speed cameras use radar to check your speed and take a photo of your car. Red light cameras take photos of cars running red lights. I hate speed cameras whereas I think red light cameras are ok. I can't think of anything more dangerous than running a red light.
Doug we are talking about speed cameras, not red light cameras. Speed cameras use radar to check your speed and take a photo of your car. Red light cameras take photos of cars running red lights. I hate speed cameras whereas I think red light cameras are ok. I can't think of anything more dangerous than running a red light.
Doug we are talking about speed cameras, not red light cameras. Speed cameras use radar to check your speed and take a photo of your car. Red light cameras take photos of cars running red lights. I hate speed cameras whereas I think red light cameras are ok. I can't think of anything more dangerous than running a red light.
It makes a lot more sense from a safety standpoint to just delay giving a "green light" to, say, North/South traffic once a "red light" has actually come on for East/West traffic. That slight delay would very likely prevent 99% of the wrecks that result from red light running because, in most cases, that delay would keep 'victims' out of an intersection while a red light runner is blasting through it.
That is exactly the way the city of Houston has their timing on street lights, Larry...it's still fairly common knowledge and common practice that once the light turns red you'd better wait because at least two more cars in each lane of traffic will be blasting through that intersection.
Cheers!
Doug
I have about twenty vehicles on the road and get dozens of these speeding tickets sent through. Six weeks after the event I genuinely have no clue who was driving at the given time, I request information in the way of photographic evidence to assist me in identifying the driver and they normally send me a shot of the rear of the car. I just send it back with a covering letter explaining that its a pool vehicle and the driver cant be identified with their evidence , thats the last I ever hear from them. Even if I knew who originally took the vehicle on the day there would be nothing to stop another employee jumping in it to nip down the shops. At the end of the day its a driver offense so its down to them to provide the evidence.
Bob