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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / March 2008Study: Red Light Cameras Make the Roads MORE Dangerous
"The rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don't work," said lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at the USF College of Public Health. "Instead, they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections. If used in Florida, cameras could potentially create even worse outcomes due to the state's high percent of elderly who are more likely to be injured or killed when a crash occurs." http://www.physorg.com/news124467295.html scudetto_001@yahoo.com wrote in news:3f6aab26-beda-44ac-8dc4- 3e5de960833a@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com: > "The rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don't work," said > lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://www.physorg.com/news124467295.html . Red light runners kill and maim children every day and nuts like you say let it continue. I've never had any problems stopping when the light hits yellow. The problem is criminals like you who try to beat the light. Keep the cameras and combine them with much more severe penalties. I don't believe in coddling criminals. Around Mar 12, 10:27 am, Aunt Judy (AKA Pride of Diarrhea, AKA "Saddam") <http://tinyurl.com/65nqz> wrote: wrote: > scudetto_...@yahoo.com wrote in news:3f6aab26-beda-44ac-8dc4- > 3e5de9608...@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > . Red light runners kill and maim children every day and nuts like you say > let it continue. Nobody said "let it continue". > I've never had any problems stopping when the light hits > yellow. A) I'm surprised, given your bad brakes and unsafe tires... B) In most cases, you shouldn't *have* to stop for a yellow light. > The problem is criminals like you who try to beat the light. The problem is people who DWO (drive while oblivious) and/or bad light timing, problems which a camera and draconian fines can do nothing to fix. -- ~/Garth "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." - Edith Sitwell (Ventis secundis, tene cursum.) >The problem is people who DWO (drive while oblivious) and/or bad light >timing, problems which a camera and draconian fines can do nothing to >fix. Actually, if you ask me, the bad light timings are used to facilitate the cameras and fines in raking in as much revenue as possible for the authorityes that use the cameras and the private companies that run the cameras. -- S&DDAM admits to putting others in danger with its beater (gramatical errors left as is): "Foot pumps are a joke. I had one once and since the piston only moves like 2 inches it took 50 pumps to raise the pressure by one psi. Go with the hand pumps where the piston moves around 15 inches. One of my tires has exposed cords and i have to pump it up every week. " --Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS, 3/6/08 Ref: http://tinyurl.com/yvrmhl Msg ID: Xns9A59DDA463296riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70 On Mar 12, 4:30 pm, necromancer > Actually, if you ask me, the bad light timings are used to facilitate > the cameras and fines in raking in as much revenue as possible for the > authorityes that use the cameras and the private companies that run > the cameras. Nothing gets by you, Shakespeare. ----- - gpsman > On Mar 12, 4:30 pm, necromancer > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Nothing gets by you, Shakespeare. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here; I didn't see anything factually questionable in his post. nate  Signaturereplace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel > scudetto_001@yahoo.com wrote in news:3f6aab26-beda-44ac-8dc4- > 3e5de960833a@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Red light runners kill and maim children every day and nuts > like you say let it continue. No, he said that cameras make the problem worse. Weren't you paying attention? > Keep the cameras and combine them with much more severe penalties. > I don't believe in coddling criminals. The irony of your position is that by using the cameras, states have to downgrade the offense of running a light from a criminal one (where the state has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the actual PERSON was offender) to a non-criminal administrative violation (where the state only has to show that the registered owner's vehicle ran the light). On Mar 12, 1:27 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > scudetto_...@yahoo.com wrote in news:3f6aab26-beda-44ac-8dc4- > 3e5de9608...@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Keep the cameras and combine them with much more severe penalties. I don't > believe in coddling criminals. Next time read the article, Adolph. What part of "MORE DANGEROUS" did you not understand? What a miserable life you must have. So angry... >. Red light runners kill and maim children every day and nuts like you say >let it continue. I've never had any problems stopping when the light hits >yellow. The problem is criminals like you who try to beat the light. Maybe this ( http://timesnews.net/AllSites/gnpics/9724512wreck.jpg ) will be your car in the near future? Story here: http://timesnews.net/article.php?id=9005499 http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/22/2268.asp >> . Red light runners kill and maim children every day and nuts like you say >> let it continue. I've never had any problems stopping when the light hits >> yellow. The problem is criminals like you who try to beat the light. > > Maybe this ( http://timesnews.net/AllSites/gnpics/9724512wreck.jpg ) > will be your car in the near future? Whaddya mean near future? Even given the list of things that are so dangerously wrong with Judy's beater, I get the feeling that is only the tip of the iceberg. I wouldn't be surprised if that is what Judy's car looks like *right now*. Signature~/Garth |"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. Almgren | I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. ******* | And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." --H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) |
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