And there are many more arguments to make
The first weapon in your arsenal to fight red light camera tickets is to contest the clarity of the photo. Since your vehicle was in motion at the time the picture was taken, there is a good </SPAN>
probability</SPAN> the picture will be blurry. Inspect the picture the police department sends you with the ticket.</SPAN></SPAN>
If you are unrecognizable in the photo that is the first defense you should bring up in court. If the judge cannot say </SPAN></SPAN>
beyond a reasonable doubt</SPAN> that it is you in the picture, the judge cannot find you guilty. It is important to be truthful. Do not say that the person in the photograph is not you if you know it is you. Simply question whether the judge is certain it is you in the picture.</SPAN></SPAN>
According to the Nolo.com website, if no one from the camera company appears at trial to state that the camera was working properly at the time of the photograph, you can ask the judge to exclude the photos on the grounds that no one is there to authenticate the photo.</SPAN></SPAN>
If it is true that you had to run the red light to avoid an accident, you need to say so at your hearing. There are no guarantees but if you are able to explain the situation, the judge may throw out your ticket.</SPAN></SPAN>
Furthermore, make sure to bring any witnesses you have to the court. You might need to subpoena them. The subpoena forms are available in the court. Witnesses often can verify and support your version of the events and help you to dismiss the ticket. If you have any passengers in the car, consider putting them on the witness stand as well.</SPAN></SPAN>
The best defense in the court is to prove that it is not your vehicle that has been scanned or it was not you driving it if it is the case.</SPAN></SPAN>
There are circumstances, as you approach a yellow light, where the decision is easy. If you are close to the intersection, you keep going. If you are far away, you stop. If you are almost at the intersection, you have to keep going because if you try to stop, you could cause a rear-end crash with the vehicle behind you and would be in the middle of the intersection anyway.</SPAN></SPAN>
Sitting at a red light can feel torturously long, but yellow lights often seem suspiciously short. </SPAN></SPAN>If the yellow time is not set correctly, a dilemma zone is eminent. </SPAN>Some yellow lights </SPAN>
are</SPAN> too short. There is an ideal minimum length of a yellow traffic light.</SPAN> Also The Department of Transportation’s traffic manual recommends that yellow lights are between 3 and 6 seconds long. Basically, when you're designing a yellow time, you want to prevent bringing the drivers into what we call the dilemma zone, where you have no good decision you can make. Yellow lights that are too short put drivers in the dilemma zone when they get stuck in the intersection or ram their car to a halt and cause a collision. When drivers approach an intersection as the light turns yellow, some people slam the brakes, others race the red. The wrong split-second decision causes accidents and racks up expensive tickets—sometimes far more than necessary. And this is partly because many cities do not allow long enough yellow lights. </SPAN>Longer yellow lights would give people more time to make it across the intersection without gunning it or slamming on the brakes or racking up a giant fine. Even the standards set allows for a variety of reaction times. If yellow light times were a little more generous, it would slightly slow the flow of traffic and cities wouldn't be able to collect as much money from tickets.</SPAN> Also the countdown timing before a red light is reached would alert the drivers which in this case, it was not set up at the intersection. </SPAN>
Plus, you have to account for the driver's "perception reaction time," which is basically how quickly a driver can react to seeing the light turn yellow. And that reaction time can vary from person to person, which is where things get sticky.</SPAN>
((. Now I have a ticket for $325 and 3 options to choose.
