Red Light Camera Violator of the Week: Speeding and Red Light Running
A couple of cars breeze through the intersection at Gulf to Bay Boulevard and Belcher Road making Clearwater Police's Red Light Camera Violator of the Week.
A couple of cars breeze through the intersection at Gulf to Bay Boulevard and Belcher Road making Clearwater Police's Red Light Camera Violator of the Week.
While one vehicle runs the red light, it appears that both are travelling faster than the posted 40 mph speed limit.
The red light violation comes with a $158 fine.
Clearwater Police posted the video on its Facebook page Feb. 8. Some viewers shared their comments:
Joni Joseph Johnston: "WOW not 1 but 2 idiots...so scary.."
Becky Rosenberg: "saw the flash on the second car. The first one may have entered the intersection with just milliseconds to spare!!"
John Patrick Foy: "Ticket? After 3 of those, take their license away for a few months....that might help solve the problem.... Fines don't save lives....lost a co-worker once from a red light runner...... They killed somebody and paid a fine."
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christine
1:10 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
I agree, after 3 tickets they should have their license suspended for a year....although the idiots still drive without licenses. Doesn't seem right --kill a person get a ticket?????? I guess lives are not that important..too bad
Be Careful - the roads out there are not safe!!!
monique thomas
11:08 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Posted in the Lutz Patch 9:17 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
Few people are aware of this, but the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) changed their rules on how long yellow intervals must be in July 2011. The newer rules allow cities to deliberately and maliciously set yellows too short for the ACTUAL approach speeds of at least 85% of the vehicles (safest way to set yellow lengths). This allows cities to literally create thousands of split second violations by deliberately mis-engineering their lights with yellows too short for the actual traffic speeds. These split second violations by 0.3 or 0.9 seconds into the red would not occur at all if the lights were timed for maximum safety and minimum violations using the correct length yellows for the ACTUAL approach speeds of traffic.
WHY would FDOT allow cities to deliberately create thousands of violations with mis-engineered traffic lights using too-short yellows? Well, the state gets $83 of each $158 ticket without paying any part of the high $4,000 to $5,000 per month per camera costs - a total of $51 million in revenue last year. Can you connect the one important DOT that created this predatory revenue stream? (pun intended)
Red light cameras are a for-profit business partnership between the state, a camera vendor and a city willing to mis-engineer their traffic lights for maximum ticket revenue instead of for maximum safety. They are a scam that must end.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association