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Red Light Camera Violator of the Week: Car Careens as Truck Turns

Check out the this close call caught by a red light camera at Belcher Road and Gulf to Bay Boulevard.

A car speeds through a red light as a truck towing a canoe turns north onto Belcher Road from Gulf to Bay Boulevard making the latest Red Light Camera Violator of the Week.

"The truck hauling the trailer thinks it's perfectly safe and OK to turn north onto Belcher from Gulf-to-Bay at the end of the yellow light," according to a post on the Clearwater Police Facebook page Sept. 16. "After all, that little car zooming along westbound will stop, right?"

The violation occurred Sept. 9. It comes with a $158 fine.


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