Posted on 03/22/2009 7:58:10 AM PDT by george76
drivers are celebrating after they fought their automated tickets for running red lights and won.
This week, a Prince George's County judge threw out more than a dozen red-light tickets taken by a camera on Annapolis Road because the drivers never actually drove through the intersection. Now, transportation officials are demanding the cameras be removed.
mobile red light cameras do not comply with federal and state standards. "This program is illegal, it is illicit and it is illegitimate because it's charging people for running red lights they have not run," Townsend said.
Last June when the controversial cameras first went up, Bruce Carpenter was driving a truck when he was snapped and slapped with a ticket for stopping too late. "I was a little surprised when I opened the mail because actually I did not go through the light,"
Chief Rice it's about preventing accidents and pedestrian fatalities, not about making money as some have claimed.
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P.G. County not in it for the money? That’s unpossible!
“Not about making money.” Right
Dang, beat me to it!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. These cameras actually cause more accidents as people jam on the brakes to avoid getting a picture taken.
I can’t believe how many photo speed cameras there are everywhere in MoCo these days. I got nailed by one the other day. Blinded by the lights of oncoming traffic, I didn’t see the sign advising me that the limit on a four-lane highway suddenly dropped from 50 to 30. I understand the reasoning for why they’re placed where they are, but you really have to stand on the brakes in some locations.
Heh!
Recently got one at Caton and Benson Ave.
Sucks. Come off that ramp from 95 doing 60 something. Tried to beat the light. Lost.
I have never received a ticket from one of these (there aren’t very many of them where I live), but I absolutely despise the whole concept.
When driving, one occasionally approaches an intersection just as the traffic light turns yellow. An instant decision must be made: STOP or GO. Sometimes we mis-calculate the timing, and don’t get though the intersection before the light turns red. Is it really fair to scrutinize that very human decision, constantly and repetitively, with split-second-accurate computers, then issue punishments to every driver that gets it wrong? These system are used ONLY because those punishments generate REVENUE.
I thought there were several states that ruled these tickets as illegal/unconstitutional anyway? Is it not so?
Kinda like many medical malpractice cases in that regard.
Seems unconstitutional.
No sworn officer of the law.
No proof of service.
Etc.
Short yellow lights can cause additional rear end crashes.
The very best way to beat this is to drive way below the speed limit and screw up traffic so bad that the county will stop this greedy insanity. Protest!
Could be. I’ve been hit twice, once in Md., once in D.C.
The best way to beat these things is a paintball gun.
That’s what I had heard, no one to sign the ticket or something of that nature...
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