Posted on 11/12/2015 8:48:49 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Full title: Red light tickets thrown out in San Mateo: City to reimburse 948 tickets issued over 45 days because cameras, signals in violation of new state laws
Nearly 1,000 drivers who received a ticket for running a red light in San Mateo will be given a free pass after two of the city's red light cameras and traffic signals were found to be in violation of new state laws.
The police department will toss out 948 tickets issued between Aug. 1 and Oct. 15 after a San Mateo County Superior Court judge sided with a Burlingame man who received a ticket and sparked an NBC Bay Area investigation.
Carrying a hefty $540 fine, the city will dismiss $511,920 worth of tickets after staff failed to increase the yellow light times per new regulations in the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
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You need to read my #19.
They are not constitutional anyway....
“Show me one pic of such a red light runner getting into an accident.”
I think these are all the same intersection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCjcUczoc6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9luCCi48yg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PmpXJUEnfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0nEYLy443E
The people there should do what Tucson voters did last week. They got rid of the red light cameras, period.
No, he was on a deceleration rate to stop at the line -- but a stopped vehicle was in his way...
I think the base fine is $490, now you add court costs, night court levee, CHP levee, the levee levee and then there are the DMV points and associated rise in insurance rates depending on your record and you find that it's a whole lot more money.
6 of one - half dozen of the other
At least, that is what the citing officer would say.
I trust a cop about as much as i trust a fart during a bout of influenza.
We have a couple traffic light camera intersections in South San Francisco. All a trap to get revenue. People started avoiding them by using surrounding alternate streets. So the city changed nearby streets making them one-way to stop the avoidance. As in this instance, there were legal problems and the city was forced to refund millions of dollars for wrongful ticketing until the yellow light duration and other problems were rectified. Anywhere you see these cameras, it's about revenue and not about safety.
Clemente, with the help of NBC's Investigative team and Los Angeles resident Jay Beeber, who advocated for the new law, claim a video of the Burlingame man's ticket shows the yellow lights were set to just 3.066 seconds, below the former 3.2-second minimum.
I was stuned when I read this.
(Do any Freepers still remember being stuned because of a beeber-like device?)
I would agree.
Don’t know. They probably thought the guy in front of them was going through the Light and were preparing to stop one car length ahead at the Limit Line. Surprise, surprise...
Hmmm....If I recall my driver’s training from WAY BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL, it was obligatory for the car following to be prepared to stop before slamming into the car ahead, otherwise you would get a ticket for “Failure to be in control of your vehicle”. Sounds like too much tailgating, not the red light cameras. That’s like blaming the team that lost for the riots that burned down the town.
Well, I’m just stating what I heard was the reason the Red Light Camera where I live was taken out.
Are we disagreeing on something?
I must have missed it. I’ve never personally had a Red Light Camera Ticket.
Sorry, no, we are not disagreeing...there just seemed to be a large contingent of folks who believe any enforcement of laws are fair. Thus, they blame the most ridiculous things as the “cause” of their failures to obey. I suppose I was writing to them.
These Red Light Cameras have been rigged from the beginning to increase Revenue.
When they started to realize that the Cure was worse than the Disease, the Politicos were forced to reconsider.
The Yellow Light timing was manipulated with no concern for the outcome. Like they say, follow the money.
Well, maybe I was writing to you after all.
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