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To: John Carragher who wrote (128478)8/1/2005 6:31:47 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793838
 
please explain how your car went through a red light at an intersection and your car didn't commit a crime.

Cars don't commit crimes. People commit crimes.

it would be nice to know when you lend out your car the person is not a careful driver.

It would be. But that doesn't mean that if the person who borrowed it is not a careful drive that you have committed a crime.

I haven't read one article pertaining to this intersection of rear end accidents since the cameras went up

I have read such an article but it was in print not online. I've also heard information about it on the radio but without an online source I can't give you a link.

sure there are places that may reduce the yellow light for more tickets. I expect the system is monitored and it is the exception. I would rather see hundreds of tickets issued each month at this deadly intersection if avoids hundreds of accidents and many deaths.

If you decrease the length of the yellow light you will likely increase the number of accidents.

The local jurisdiction that collects the money would do most of the monitoring. Its a conflict of interest. In some cases the state can monitor the lights, which reduces the conflict but it might not eliminate it. Private groups can monitor and analyze the lights (by observation, I doubt they actually get the raw data available to the but they can watch the light and see how long the yellows are and see when the flash goes off), but they have to appeal to the government to take the lights down or change them.

Tim
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