by brian » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:05 pm
Jan 18, 2013:
Drivers lose yellow-light lawsuit against Cary's red-light cameras
Maybe I don't live in the land of the crazies after all!
After the town in which i live (Cary, NC) removed all the red light cameras because a couple of the red lights where the camera's where installed had short yellow cycles, and mainly due to a Cary resident who decided to make his life goal getting rid of red light cameras because of a few bad apples
- which makes me wonder if that fellow resident will also try to remove apples from supermarkets, if you have i mean a few bad apples time to rid the town of ALL apples!
Anyhow his lawyer finagled a class-action lawsuit status to try to get all red-light runners their $50 back from the Town of Cary.
A Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway properly ruled Thursday that drivers who challenged Cary’s red-light camera program are not entitled to refunds of their $50 tickets.
Bravo to Superior Court Judge Ridgeway!
i only wish the town would decide to put them back in!
- BUT broker a better deal with camera companies...
- apparently the original deal gave 90% of proceeds to the company who installed and maintained the red-light cameras while that company shouldered NONE of the legal costs! not such a good deal.
HOWEVER
i believe that red-light camers are useful as a red-light running deterrent, change serious and many times fatal t-bone intersection collisions to some minor speed read enders, and free the police to do more important things
See the full article:
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and some prior articles on the issue:
Jan 18, 2013: [url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/18/2614196/drivers-lose-their-yellow-light.html]Drivers lose yellow-light lawsuit against Cary's red-light cameras[/url]
Maybe I don't live in the land of the crazies after all!
After the town in which i live (Cary, NC) removed all the red light cameras because a couple of the red lights where the camera's where installed had short yellow cycles, and mainly due to a Cary resident who decided to make his life goal getting rid of red light cameras because of a few bad apples[list][i]which makes me wonder if that fellow resident will also try to remove apples from supermarkets, if you have i mean a few bad apples time to rid the town of ALL apples![/i][/list]
Anyhow his lawyer finagled a class-action lawsuit status to try to get all red-light runners their $50 back from the Town of Cary.
A Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway properly ruled Thursday that drivers who challenged Cary’s red-light camera program are not entitled to refunds of their $50 tickets.
Bravo to Superior Court Judge Ridgeway!
i only wish the town would decide to put them back in!
[list][i]BUT broker a better deal with camera companies...
[list]apparently the original deal gave 90% of proceeds to the company who installed and maintained the red-light cameras while that company shouldered NONE of the legal costs! not such a good deal.[/list]
HOWEVER
i believe that red-light camers are useful as a red-light running deterrent, change serious and many times fatal t-bone intersection collisions to some minor speed read enders, and free the police to do more important things[/i][/list]
See the full article:
[list][*][list][url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/18/2614196/drivers-lose-their-yellow-light.html]Drivers lose yellow-light lawsuit against Cary's red-light cameras[/url][/list]
and some prior articles on the issue:
[*][list][url=http://www.mchenrysoftware.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=511]NC plays stupid, moving to outlaw red light cameras[/url]
[*][url=http://www.mchenrysoftware.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=471]Driver Sues, Blames That Darn Yellow Light![/url]
[*][url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/04/12/1123725/senate-votes-against-cameras.html]Senate votes against cameras[/url][/list][/list]