Kansas City To Start Issuing Tickets
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 2:52pm
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  16 years
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Kansas City will no longer be just issuing warnings, but now tickets to red light cameras.
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1039903.html
Daniel
Red Light Cameras in Kansas City
The citizens are complaining, NOT because of the cameras, but because they are ticketing the car, not the driver. So, if you borrow my car (which ain't going to happen), and you run a red light, I get the ticket, not you.
This will affect the insurance rates of the owner of the car. While this is not so much an issue for regular owners, it will affect the "fleet" owners. It is also causing accidents when drivers are stopping short, or hitting the brakes too soon, and get rear ended.
While I have mixed emotions on this, I do think there are better ways of handling it. It is illegle and dangerous to run red lights, and it is something that can cause serious injury (I've been hit twice by red light runners), the cameras have their own unique problems, a couple mentioned above.
I guess the only answer is to have a GPS and have the red light camera alerts installed!
PS: I am a resident of Kansas City, and have three red light cameras in my 4 mile drive to work!
Redlight Cameras
The citizens are complaining, NOT because of the cameras, but because they are ticketing the car, not the driver. So, if you borrow my car (which ain't going to happen), and you run a red light, I get the ticket, not you.
This will affect the insurance rates of the owner of the car. While this is not so much an issue for regular owners, it will affect the "fleet" owners. It is also causing accidents when drivers are stopping short, or hitting the brakes too soon, and get rear ended.
While I have mixed emotions on this, I do think there are better ways of handling it. It is illegle and dangerous to run red lights, and it is something that can cause serious injury (I've been hit twice by red light runners), the cameras have their own unique problems, a couple mentioned above.
I guess the only answer is to have a GPS and have the red light camera alerts installed!
PS: I am a resident of Kansas City, and have three red light cameras in my 4 mile drive to work!
I have a couple of problems with the concept behind red light cameras.
1. It makes me responsible for the action of others. If I lend my car to my neighbor while his car is being repaired and he uses it for a get-away vehicle in a bank robbery, do I go to jail for bank robbery while he goes free? Then why do I have to pay a fine for his traffic violation?
2. Running a red light is a very serious offense. It would make more sense to assess points against the drivers license of the offender than take money out of the pocket of the car's owner. The point should be to get reckless drivers off of the road, which points can do, not generate income for the city/township/county.
Jack J