Lawyer Challenges Red-Light Cam System

WSMV Nashville, TN. ^ | 10/24/2009 | WSMV

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I have not have a ticket for over 10 years with the cameras installed in the LA area.Smart..eh.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I have never been busted by a camera light for over the 10 years they have been existence in LA.

[Vendome]

I too have not been busted from the ones all over the Bay Area nor the ones I have seen in LA.

[ColdWater]

“Smith also said the cameras violate Tennessee’s open courts law because every time you get a ticket you owe $50.”

In CA it is $370.

[ColdWater]

One way to beat a red-light camera: Don’t enter the intersection on a yellow light. I know someone who had to pay $300.

Studies have shown that they reduce the yellow light intervals where they set up the cameras.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

That is true and they have fixed that problem here after people complained.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

If you are interested, for a modest fee some GPS systems can guide you around cameras. They actually point out the intersections where the cameras are located in all 50 states. I know that Tom Tom and Garmin has this feature