Every Sunday morning the State Troopers sit right in front of an exit that turns off for a really popular church in Clinton, MD. I'm sure they get most of the month's quotas right there every week.
I absolutely hate those damn things! They make me paranoid. In my city they are everywhere. My mother tried to fight a red light ticket and lost. They charged her an additional $75 for losing!! What?! Seriously? I heard in one city, people have not paid those tickets for years. They stopped using the cameras.
$75 for losing? That is outrageous! I saw a story on the news about a guy who has gotten 56 red light camera tickets over the past 8 years and hasn't paid a single one!
Was she charged the $75 for the court fees? If you win your case, you don't have to pay, but if you do, then you pay the ticket and possibly court fees.
I know everywhere we go in Kansas city these cameras are everywhere. I do not like living in the city and we are fixing to go back to rural Missouri where you have one flashing light in town in the only intersection.
I have never been ticketed from a red light camera. I try to avoid them, just like I try to avoid school zones.
The last traffic ticket I got, and I usually get one once a decade, was generated from one of those vans.
It was expensive, but I did not lose points. In our state, tickets generated from vans cannot include point loss. The only time you can lose points is if a cop actually writes the ticket.
Do you lose points, too, if you get a ticket generated from a van or red light cameras in your state or do you just draw a fine?
The joke is, even if you "win", you still pay court fees. You lose no matter what. It's a bullshit money scam as always. In my city, they are new and programmed horribly. I've been STOPPED at a red light, NO ONE else around, and the thing starts taking 2 or 3 pictures. One time I took a U-turn and one almost blinded me with the flash. Shit is STUPID. What's next? Cameras that check if your pants are saggy?