Every locality has some.
Red light cameras are being mounted at troublesome intersections all over the nation and their use is resulting in unprecedented levels of citations. While some are voicing concern that such measures are simply money-making schemes, their use is resulting in dramatic reductions in crashes at those intersections as well. The hard evidence is coming in and it s showing that red light camera enforcement is making U.S. intersections safer. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, crashes declined over 40 percent throughout the entire city of Oxnard, Calif., even though only 11 of its 125 intersections were so equipped. In calculating crash reductions, researchers took into account changes in crashes at intersections without signals plus crash trends in three other cities used as controls.