In article >, fbloogyudsr wrote:

> With Cameras on the Corner, Your Ticket Is in the Mail
> By JONATHAN MILLER
>
> Published: January 6, 2005
> On a perfectly clear day in October, Carla Correa, a confessed neurotic when
> it comes to getting a ticket, powered her Honda Civic toward an intersection
> in Baltimore on her way to visit her boyfriend in Washington. When the light
> turned yellow, she did not simply cruise through, but instead slammed on the
> brakes.
> Seconds later, a truck rammed her from behind, and her car was wrecked.
> Why would she do such a thing? The answer could be found in a box mounted on
> a nearby post, with a lens pointed at her license plate.

> "It's an intersection that I've been through a million times before, and I
> knew that it was a quick yellow light," Ms. Correa, 25, said in a telephone
> interview. She also knew that the intersection was equipped with a camera.
> "And when I saw the yellow, I freaked out."

Red light camera and a shorter than normal yellow signal length. Can
anyone say revenue generator? Safety negative revenue generator.

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> Or as Mr. Hannigan of Affiliated put it: "Would you rather have someone
> coming at you at 40 miles an hour, going through your window, or rear-ending
> you at 10?"

Or no collision at all if the intersection was properly engineered
instead of it's flaws being used for revenue generation.