Red light running led to 676 fatalities and an estimated 113,000 injuries in 2009 (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). Intersection crashes account for more than 45 percent of all reported crashes and 21 percent of fatalities. In 2003, 9,213 Americans died as a result of intersection-related crashes – a rate of more than one an hour.
(National Automotive Sampling System General Estimates System (NASS-GES), Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)) A Columbus, Ohio study found that the number of people running red lights at the city’s first two intersections with cameras dropped from 1,684 violators in March 2006 to 477 in August of 2006, a 71 percent decrease. (Ohio Post Dispatch, September 25, 2006) |
Ernie Knight, Plainfield, IL Chicago Tribune Letter to the Editor January 18,2010 |
