May 13, 2024
9:52:02am
CSoul Hardcore Democrat
In general I'm against "nanny-state" things like speed cameras, but red light cameras at high speed intersections I'm
all for. This weekend I was at an intersection near my house that regularly has massive t-bone-style accidents when people blow through red lights. I was turning left and the light turned yellow and there was a truck pulling a trailer coming down the road with easily twice enough distance to stop. This intersection has a dip right after the left turn so you can't really gun it turning left without damaging your vehicle. I gauged subjectively whether he would stop and said to myself, "he is not going to stop" so I held off turning as I was in the middle of the intersection and sure enough 2 seconds after the light turned red he went through the intersection. I was ticked. If I would have turned like a normal person or my kids would, I could have easily been killed. So yeh, bring on the red light cameras.
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