How do you deal with a red light camera ticket?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ive never heard of camera tickets for not coming to a complete stop, I’ve only seen them on red lights. Kind of subjective.

You have to come to a complete stop on red. You can still make a right turn, but you have to fully stop first. Same as a stop sign.

This. The wheels have to come to a complete stop before the white line.
I’d make her pay it OP but wouldn’t do anything else.

It sounds about right , make sure she is aware of it.

[Anonymous]

I actually got the same ticket in the city of Rockville, MD a couple of weeks ago. I did more of a "rolling stop". I stopped for like 2 seconds, but that wasn't enough of a stop for the camera. Clearly from the video you can see my brake lights. I just paid the ticket. Too much to deal with going to court, taking time off work, and fighting it. It makes me mad, and I'm going to avoid that stoplight if I can.

[Anonymous]

There are several DC red light cameras that have been proven to be completely faulty but the city won't fix them. You can do everything you are supposed to do, but it will still nail you for turning right on red even though it is legal to do so.

I don't know if it is the case in this instance, but I made my kid pay the $50 and just alerted them to the intersections and said unfortunately you have to sit there and wait even if a bunch of angry drivers behind you are honking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids lose their license for the number of days equal to the cost of the tickets. So here, she’d lose her license 50 days and pay the fine. So far each of my kids have gotten either 1 or no tickets. Seems to work.

This seems overly harsh. After I read your first sentence I was thinking a punishment of 5 days, which I felt was reasonable. 50 days seems over the top.

Less than 2 months punishment for running a red light is too harsh to you? Driving is a privilege, not a right, and breaking the law and earning a ticket absolutely means losing that privilege. 5 days is nothing. Clearly pps kids actually learn from this, unlike the kids/teens that are continually getting tickets/accidents and risking other peoples lives on the road.

[Anonymous]

I got one last year for the same reason. I now come to a complete stop. $75 to relearn that lesson!

[Anonymous]

The 50 day poster is crazy. Just have her pay the fine and follow-up with her regularly about stopping before turning at red lights, even if the car behind her honks. She has to check her rear-view mirror in case the car behind assumes she won't stop: brake early to signal her intention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids lose their license for the number of days equal to the cost of the tickets. So here, she’d lose her license 50 days and pay the fine. So far each of my kids have gotten either 1 or no tickets. Seems to work.

This seems overly harsh. After I read your first sentence I was thinking a punishment of 5 days, which I felt was reasonable. 50 days seems over the top.

Less than 2 months punishment for running a red light is too harsh to you? Driving is a privilege, not a right, and breaking the law and earning a ticket absolutely means losing that privilege. 5 days is nothing. Clearly pps kids actually learn from this, unlike the kids/teens that are continually getting tickets/accidents and risking other peoples lives on the road.

Do you punish yourself or your spouse for this? The adults in the family get more of these tickets than the teens. It's one thing to blow through a red light at an intersection...it's another to come to a safe stop and turn right with no oncoming traffic and get nailed by these cameras.

You do know these cameras are just revenue generators for the city/county, right? Speed cameras are placed at the bottom of hills to catch someone that momentarily is going 31 vs. 25 (there is usually a 5 mph grace limit), red light cameras are placed at high traffic areas where they will catch the most people not coming to an absolute dead stop ahead of the markings, and BTW even if you do that you will still get the ticket because no safe driver would just turn right at higher speed because you still want to crawl a bit and make sure no oncoming traffic is coming...few of them are placed where it is most dangerous or serve any public safety need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids lose their license for the number of days equal to the cost of the tickets. So here, she’d lose her license 50 days and pay the fine.

OOF....that would be more of a punishment for me and DW having to schlep her around for her activities for 2 months...

no thank you....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to really enlighten her, have her demand a hearing and then go and see what a complete crock of nonsense the “process” really is, ostensibly justified by the relatively small amount involved in each machine-driven ticket while ignoring the truckloads of money collected for the camera company and .gov.

Or, you know, just have her pay the ticket since she broke the law.

[Anonymous]

Yes, she needs to stop fully. Rolling stops don't fully account for pedestrians even though lots of drivers think they do.

Guarantee that hitting someone will ruin her day. Train her and yourself to stop fully.

[Anonymous]

She would pay the ticket and nothing more. Maybe if there were repeats I would add a punishment. Really, I think of myself as a safe driver with no tickets etc but someday I will probably get one. I will pay it and go on with my life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually got the same ticket in the city of Rockville, MD a couple of weeks ago. I did more of a "rolling stop". I stopped for like 2 seconds, but that wasn't enough of a stop for the camera. Clearly from the video you can see my brake lights. I just paid the ticket. Too much to deal with going to court, taking time off work, and fighting it. It makes me mad, and I'm going to avoid that stoplight if I can.

Brake lights don’t mean you came to a complete stop. It means you applied your brakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids lose their license for the number of days equal to the cost of the tickets. So here, she’d lose her license 50 days and pay the fine. So far each of my kids have gotten either 1 or no tickets. Seems to work.

This seems overly harsh. After I read your first sentence I was thinking a punishment of 5 days, which I felt was reasonable. 50 days seems over the top.

Less than 2 months punishment for running a red light is too harsh to you? Driving is a privilege, not a right, and breaking the law and earning a ticket absolutely means losing that privilege. 5 days is nothing. Clearly pps kids actually learn from this, unlike the kids/teens that are continually getting tickets/accidents and risking other peoples lives on the road.

Ummm slowly rolling right on a red is not “ running a red light” . Good grief calm down. Running a red light would be blowing thru at a high rate of speed. Hence the word running.

[Anonymous]

I've been in a similar situation with my kids and what I did:

Remind them of the law for red lights, they have to pay for the ticket, and tell them you don't want to see this happening again.

[Anonymous]

^^ this is the correct answer