• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You can also avoid it by not going through red lights.

    When the private red light camera company was in my city, the camera company altered the yellow light timings shortening them when revenue fell so they could give people tickets. The red light camera company denied changing the timings for months. It took community action of someone standing with a stopwatch to catch them in a lie. The red light company was shut down.

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      23 hours ago

      Just to add, some of these companies are just assholes. I knew someone who got a ticket due to the fact he hydroplaned across a red light, it was either run the red or spinout of control. He ran the red and a deputy that witnessed the whole thing gave him a write off o the whole situation. Still got a ticket from the camera though, was easy to dismiss but if the cop hadn’t been chill and put it in their system it would’ve been a bitch to dismiss.

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        21 hours ago

        This exact same thing happened to someone close to me except it was black ice instead of hydroplaning causing the slide. The red light camera ticket still stuck.