Red Light Camera News Driver Stops At Red Light, Gets Ticket (RLC VENDOR and CITY PLAY "DEFINITION" GAME!)
Another example of different "definitions" to churn tickets. Read earlier post on it: http://banthecams.org/201105131210/Tale-of-Two-ATS-Towns-HOW-SCAMERA-OPERATIONS-USE-DIFFERENT-DEFINITIONS-of-a-Stop-line.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/27932801/detail.html
Driver Stops At Red Light, Gets Ticket
Police Say Woman Didn't Stop Soon Enough
By Lance Hernandez, 7NEWS Reporter
POSTED: 11:33 pm MDT May 17, 2011
UPDATED: 12:56 am MDT May 18, 2011
DENVER -- A driver who was ticketed after stopping for a red light at 6th Avenue and Lincoln Street is questioning why Denver’s red light cameras were installed in the first place.
“I came to a stop and I saw all the lights flashing and then I got this in the mail,” said Sandra Acuna. “Surprise.”
Police said Acuna didn’t stop soon enough, that she stopped in the crosswalk.
But Acuna said if she did cross the white line, it wasn’t by much.
She can’t believe she was ticketed because of a camera that she thought was installed to keep people from running red lights.
“I think they’re robbing people,” Acuna said. “I don’t have $75 to give them for free when I did stop.”
“I personally believe it’s about revenue,” said Acuna’s boyfriend, Kojo Hilaire.
Hilaire said that when the cameras were installed, residents were told that it was about safety, about preventing accidents.
“It is about safety,” said Denver Police Department Spokesman Sonny Jackson. “It’s about safety for other motorists and safety for pedestrians.”
Jackson said that if a driver stops in a crosswalk, pedestrians often have to walk out into a lane of traffic to get around the car.
“That’s not safe,” he said.
7NEWS photographer Eric Goody spotted numerous cars crossing the solid white line while stopping for a red light at that intersection.
In some instances, pedestrians had plenty of room to walk in the crosswalk.
In others, the vehicles completely blocked the handicap ramp.
Jackson said the stoplight cameras are designed to change bad behavior.
He said stopping in crosswalks is one of them.
“The stop line is there for a reason,” he said. “Because we don’t want you to block people and have them walk out into traffic to get around you.”
When asked if fewer tickets were being issued because the cameras were changing behavior, Jackson said he didn’t have statistics on that, but said that over time that will happen.
Acuna believes that fewer tickets are being issued to actual red light runners and that more are being issued to motorists who stop in a crosswalk.
Jackson said that according to state law, you are in violation if the front (bumper) of your car crosses the white stop line.
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