Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right Angle Crashes
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 6 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President It seems that the most implausible myths are the hardest ones to kill off. Other than within the institutional capital of the Flat Earth Society, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is generally accepted that red ...
Help Us Stop Short Yellow Lights
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 12 Comments »The National Motorists Association Foundation is organizing a national grassroots effort to publicize and discourage the practice of using traffic signals with short yellow durations as revenue generators at red light ticket camera intersections. The Stop Short Yellow Lights Project ...
Short Red-Light Camera Grace Period Leads To Ticket Refunds
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 6 Comments »Last week, Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer publicized the story of a local driver who was unjustly ticketed: Mike Kochkodin didn't think his car blew the traffic signal on Roosevelt Boulevard. But a few days after the white light flashed, ...
Forget Due Process. We’ll Just Wing It.
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 3 Comments »If you need any further proof that cities with red-light cameras don't care about motorists, check out this article from the Chillicothe Gazette on the Chillicothe, Ohio ticket camera program. They've decided to start issuing citations without having any system in ...
Red-Light Camera Contracts Incentivize Ticketing Innocent Drivers
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 4 Comments »TheNewspaper.com recently published an interesting story on red-light camera ticket quotas in Los Angeles County and Roseville, California. The quota is explained in this excerpt: The contract sets as the baseline that the company must issue 25 tickets for every 100 ...
Ticket Camera Bias Uncovered At The Orlando Sentinel
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 10 Comments »To stay informed on the latest news about issues important to National Motorists Association members, we keep tabs on multiple news sources around the country. Because of our strong opposition to red light ticket cameras, we monitor news on this ...
Why The Insurance Industry Loves Red-Light Cameras
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 5 Comments »The insurance industry has been the leading advocate for red-light cameras since they were first introduced in the United States and it's worth examining why they push so hard for their installation. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which ...
Can Missouri Red-Light Camera Tickets Be Thrown Away?
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 28 Comments »Recent news reports out of St. Louis, Missouri seem to suggest that it's safe to ignore red-light camera tickets in certain parts of the state. The Columbia Missourian explains: "Because most red-light cameras take a picture only of the car — not ...
Local School Board Wants Ticket Camera Cash
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 6 Comments »In 2006, North Carolina's second-highest court ruled that, under the state constitution, cities had to give 90 percent of ticket camera revenue to the public school system. Because the true appeal of ticket cameras is revenue, this ruling caused the ...
Increased Yellow Light Times Make Ticket Cameras Unnecessary
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 3 Comments »As a follow-up to our last post on short yellow light times, a local newspaper in Denver reports that the city is reconsidering its plan to install red-light cameras after the paper's investigation revealed short yellow light times across ...
