Red Light Camera News Why the VAST MAJORITY of RLV crashes WILL NOT BE PREVENTED BY RLC
While the IIHS gets ready to release a "study" claiming RLC "saves lives". I thought it would be interesting to look at real causes of some of these terrible RLV crashes in the Tampa Bay region in 2010 that a RLC IS FUNDIMENTALLY USELESS AT STOPPING!
MOST OF THESE FATAL RLV CRASHES have secondary themes that a RLC WILL NOT STOP!
2010
Stolen Car/Fleeing Police Article Date 9/4/2010, date of crash 9/3/2010 (1 killed)
Quote: ST. PETERSBURG — Authorities have identified the driver accused of leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase Friday night in a stolen SUV and then driving it through a red light, killing one.
Officer 5 am long shift. Accident due to fatigue most likely. Article date 10/21/2010, Crash date 9/21/2010. (1 killed)
Quote "No one will ever know why Longway didn't stop, but investigators know he wasn't distracted by a cell phone, computer or radio — none of those devices were in use at the time."
(Lord have mercy on his soul).
DUI/Stolen Car/Fleeing Police Article Date 4/13/2010, date of crash 4/12/2010 (1 killed)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/cabdriver-killed-as-suspect-flees-police/1086816
Quote: Police tried to arrest Ferry on an outstanding warrant after getting a tip that a man wanted for failing to appear in court for driving with a suspended or revoked license was at the Copper Mug Bar at 1463 S Belcher Road.
Ferry, 47, of Largo left the bar about 1:45 a.m. Officers tried to pull over his 1998 Dodge Ram, but Ferry sped north on Belcher. Police followed, but did not use emergency lights.
Shortly afterward, Ferry ran a red light and crashed into Donahue's Yellow Cab on Drew Street, authorities said
DUI Article Date 8/2/2010, crash date 8/1/2010 (I thought it might be 7/31/2010) (4 killed)
Quote: That is when police say the drunken 20-year-old sped through a red light at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street and 22nd Avenue N in his Chevrolet Impala and struck a Ford
Fusion.
The crash left three women widowed, two children fatherless and a dad burdened with sorrow he cannot shake.
Behind the wheel of the Ford was Orlando accountant Elroy McConnell, 51. The passengers were his three adult sons: Elroy McConnell III, 28, of Pineville, La.; Nathan McConnell, 24, of
Orlando; and Kelly McConnell, 19, of Orlando.
All four died at the scene.
DUI Article Date 12/18/2010, crash date 11/4/2010 (1 killed)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/pasco-man-charged-in-fatal-tampa-crash/1140693 RLV DUI Sligh and Nebrasba 11/4/2010
Quote: Daniel Ray, 37, was charged with DUI manslaughter in the Nov. 4 death of Sonia Sofia De Jesus Serrano.
Ray's blood alcohol level after the crash was twice the .08 percent level where the law presumes impairment, Tampa police said.
De Jesus, 46, was driving her 2004 Toyota Matrix east on Sligh Avenue when Ray's sport utility vehicle ran a red light while on southbound Nebraska Avenue, police said.
DUI Article Date 12/16/2010, crash date 9/4/2010 (1 killed)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/authorities-arrest-new-port-richey-driver-accused-in-fatal-september-crash/1140239 RLV DUI Little Road and Ridge Road 9/4/2010
Quote: NEW PORT RICHEY — Three months ago, a pickup blew through a red light and killed a man.
This week authorities arrested the man they say was responsible.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Robert M. Sager was drunk when he hit a motorcyclist Sept. 4 at Little and Ridge roads. Michael J. Hallmeyer, 32, of New Port Richey died the following
day from his injuries at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg.
DUI article date 11/23/2010, date of crash 10/30/2010 (1 killed)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/tampa-man-turns-himself-in-on-dui-manslaughter-charge/1135938
Quote: A Tampa man turned himself in on a DUI manslaughter charge Tuesday in connection with an Oct. 30 crash that killed a woman.
Tampa police say Ingram Edmond Ferguson, 44, ran a red light at Hillsborough and Nebraska avenues and hit a truck driven by Yo Sandi Linares-Ortiz of Plant City.
Ferguson's blood-alcohol level was .296, police said, more than three times the limit at which state law presumes impairment. Besides the DUI manslaughter charge, he faces two counts
of driving under the influence with property damage. Bail was set at $52,000.
Old Age (Driver Error) Article Date 12/23/2010, crash date 12/21/2010 (1 Killed)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/valrico-woman-dies-in-east-hillsborough-crash/1141428
Quote: Harry B. Smith, 86, was northbound on Miller Road at State Road 60 about 6:30 p.m. when he missed the red light and turned left onto the highway, the Highway Patrol said.
There are two other fatal crashes not mention here. both seem to be not paying attention but not enough known at time of this posting.
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