Use of Cameras Suggested for Traffic Enforcement
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Motorists passing through La Mirada may soon better understand the expression, “Yellow’s mellow. Red you’re dead.”
Within the next month, the City Council is expected to consider a proposal by the city’s Public Safety Commission to set up a red-light photo enforcement program to reduce accidents.
The program consists of portable cameras and sensors that take pictures of vehicles and record their license plates when they run a red light. Motorists are sent a ticket in the mail.
In other cities where the cameras were used, accident rates declined between 7% and 40%, city officials said.
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