Oops!!!

[Marilyn]

I have to pay $100 because I was caught by a red light camera. Check out the video. I was following a Fed Exp truck at a safe speed and safe following distance. I'm in the red pickup. Watch what happens. This is sooooo messed up!!!! But it got me cold. Machines have no mercy!!

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Citation Number: PLR09002887

License Plate Number: 96LLW6

City Code: PTLCTX

[DianaB]

Could you see the light from behind the semi? Do you remember doing this? This doesn't seem fair and you could probably fight it but I don't know if it would do any good. It' looks like you could have possibly seen the light and just didn't stop. That sucks!! I hadn't heard of anyone getting tickets from these but I live in a small town with 4 stop lights (that don't change--just blink)

[judy]

It does not look like you could win if you fight it. Just pay it and never think about it again! That's what I do when I get a ticket I can't fight.

[Janet]

Oh Marilyn....they got you good didn't they?

[Lindsey]

Oh no! We got our first red light camera at an important intersection about 4 years ago. The city said it paid for itself in the first 2 weeks! My dad got a ticket not long after it went up, but it was $250. They are pretty tough to fight, because they go through a few people to review before they get sent out. We have since gotten about 5 more red light cameras around the city.

[gja1000]

Oops is right!! They just put up a camera at an intersection that I go through everyday - BUT - I turn right at the intersection - into a yield lane, so I never have to stop or go through the signal light! :D YAY! WHEW!

[HALEY]

Wow that sucks Marilyn!!! Glad they don't have camera's YET in my town... but my old boss got busted by a camera for going thru a toll booth without paying, but he fought it cause he had easy pass and won it, don't know why it didn't pick that up..

[DianaB]

When we were in Chicago last spring I ran out of toll money and so we had to drive on through one of those man-less booths. They had toll booths everywhere and we figured that we spent $20 on tolls!!! Of course, some of those were because we were lost! LOL Anyway when I got home there was a place online where you could go and pay otherwise they would send you a ticket. They must have had a camera set up too.

[donna1990]

I am 64 and never had a ticket.
We have had those cameras at a lot of intersections for a long time.
I agree with Judy, just pay it and don't go through the b.s.

[Marilyn]

Oh, I'm not going to try to fight it. They have me cold. I just thought the circumstances were so kinda funny. I'm driving along, minding my business, and bam, the FedEx truck passes under and there's a red light and nothing I can do to stop. The timing was so perfect.

I was returning to the office from a day in Corpus Christi, and I told my coworkers that I may have been caught by the camera. Seems I was right!!

The town where this is happening is making a fortune off these cameras. The street I was on is a divided highway with a wide grassy median between the lanes. I've heard that the city is planning to plant rows of palm trees and landscaping down the median. It's a small coastal town with about 12,000 population.