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By corfan01 - 05/10/2009 11:11 - United States

Today, I got a red light camera ticket for $100 in the mail. After checking the date and time, I realized it was from when I was rear ended into the intersection while STOPPED at a red light. FML
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Hah, ouch. Good luck getting out of that one. If there was police involvement when you got rear-ended it shouldn't be hard.

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Either this is fake or whoever processed it is stupid. A red-light camera takes two photos a fraction of a second apart. They should have been able to tell from the two photos that you were moving pretty slowly into the intersection (being rear-ended wouldn't exactly propel you forwards at 50km/hr). One would also assume they would have been able to see the damage done to your tail. Should be easy to fight, esp. with the police report of the original incident.

tropicthunder 3

It might not be that easy to fight though, there's at least one district and state where a red-light ticket was upheld as a funeral procession went through, following state law, with an officer waving them on, clearly in the picture. It doesnt matter if you're guilty or not. This is guilt until proven innocent.

Yyz 0

If your red light camera is like the ones we have here, each one takes a short video each time it activates for a ticket. If you go to court, it will be there for all to see and you to explain, along with the accident report. You did report the accident right?

Juat tell the judge that and stop your bitching.

The ticket gave me the option to contest it by mail, I included a copy of the police report from my accident. Hopefully this will clear it up, because I'm not driving back to Chicago to contest it in person. God knows I'm not paying it.

CinnamonGrl 0

Where on earth do you live that red light tickets are only $100? When I got one of those, it was $435 - yay for living in California.

glad2cya 0

In Lafayette, Louisiana they start at $25. Ther faster you go, the higher they are.

hey did you see this post: #5653425? Its really similar! lol =D

Bgreat09 0

This sounds really fake if you got rear ended the camera will show u got rear ended you ****** moron so they wouldent give u a ticket and u must have got pushed pretty ****** hard into the intersetion