Red Light Cameras

[coxew]

I doubt this is true but someone told me that you can beat a ticket like this if you challenge it in court. He said you have the right to confront your accuser and a camera can't testify in court and therefor it would be thrown out. The guy had written a book on how to get out of traffic tickets.

There really isn't anything to fight, as far as court goes, at least where I'm at. It doesn't go on your driving record and you don't have to appear in court. I think what they do, though, if you don't pay is turn into a collection company, thereby your credit score becomes affected by this as you have an unpaid debt that is being pursued.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

I doubt this is true but someone told me that you can beat a ticket like this if you challenge it in court. He said you have the right to confront your accuser and a camera can't testify in court and therefor it would be thrown out. The guy had written a book on how to get out of traffic tickets.

The "accuser" here is not the camera but the city, and as such the cameras are only evidence providers and not accusers.

My problem with this is that you never know how long a light will be yellow for. Some of them seem as long as five seconds, and others about a half a second.

I've never seen a yellow light only a half second long, not a yellow light five seconds long, at least not at an intersection where the speed limit is 35.

 

[Golferdow01]

Go ahead and fine...I don't break the law and run red lights so I don't have to worry about it.

 

[CleveBucks]

As long as you've entered into the intersection when the light is yellow, you're legal. The cops say they will only issue tickets in blatant cases of violations, not if you're a half a second late in getting into the intersection. We'll see. Personally I think it's a great idea, considering some of the examples they mention in the article.

 

[martinss01]

stop light camera's i don't mind. speeding camera's im a little less accepting of.

 

[Golferdow01]

What are those cameras that will occasionally hang over an intersection above the stoplight?

 

[OSUsushichic]

Go ahead and fine...I don't break the law and run red lights so I don't have to worry about it.

I'm assuming you ride the short bus with Thump. He doesn't break the law either. :p

 

[Taosman]

"Fine em till they puke!" With appologies to Mili. :tongue2:

 

[tedginn05]

What are those cameras that will occasionally hang over an intersection above the stoplight?

I always thought they were traffic control/traffic monitoring cameras. But that seems unlikely what they are for.

 

[CleveBucks]

What are those cameras that will occasionally hang over an intersection above the stoplight?

Sometimes you can see the sensors for emergency vehicles. Picks up the strobe of the flashing light and changes the light to red in all drections. If it's an actual camera, it's probably for traffic conditions and monitoring.

 

[buckeyefool]

What are those cameras that will occasionally hang over an intersection above the stoplight?

No, the ones that they have are big white boxes. The things are huge you can't miss them.

 

[hoat]

As my kids love to tell me. Green means go, yellow means SLOW DOWN, red means stop. Of course Tyler (my son) asked me why I go faster when it's yellow. :)

 

[redskinbucksfan]

As my kids love to tell me. Green means go, yellow means SLOW DOWN, red means stop. Of course Tyler (my son) asked me why I go faster when it's yellow. :)

I thought yellow meant 4 more cars.

 

[Golferdow01]

Sometimes you can see the sensors for emergency vehicles. Picks up the strobe of the flashing light and changes the light to red in all drections. If it's an actual camera, it's probably for traffic conditions and monitoring.

Thank you sir...I was always cautious thinking they might monitor my "running of red lights", which of course I never do :)

 

[horseshoe1]

They tried this speed camera thing in a town near me reciently (Steubenville,O), and after several hundred tickets a local attorneys wife got a ticket and her husband took offense to it and filed a class action suit and won the case.
From what I understand all the monies must now be paid back but the attorney gets his cut also.