Dear Baltimore, please, please, check the car

[glhs837]

Originally Posted by RPMDAD

glhs, just came across this. Love how they talk about the Public Safety issue in this article. Oh me bad all they talk about is the loss of revenue

Fewer Than Half of Md. Speeders Caught on Camera Get Tickets.

only 44 percent of violators that were photographed got tickets. The rest were thrown out ``due to reliability and readability issues.'' As a result, the state brought in $850,000 less than the contractor had estimated.

Fewer Than Half of Md. Speeders Caught on Camera Get Tickets | NBC4 Washington

Well of course they dont talk about the safety gains. Hard to explain gains when you go from nothing and end up with nothing. Here's an article discussing highway worker fatalities.

Highway worker killed in late-night hit-and-run in Maryland

I cant make sense of this line though? Article published in 2010. So, were seven killed in 2005?

It apparently was the first death of a highway worker in Maryland since 2006 and brought to eight the number killed in the past five years.

In any case article mentions that 700 people were killed in highway workzone crashes in 2008. And that %90 of those were drivers and passengers. Which leaves us with a national number for highway workers killed in workzones that year of 70. I cant find it right now, but I did read that over %95 of highway workzone worker fatalities were caused by the jobsite itself, dump truck, materials falling over, that sort of thing. So that leaves us with a number of about three to four highway workers killed by drivers nationally. Hell, I'll be we lose more to slippery bathtubs than speeding drivers. And that doesnt even mention how many of those accidents are really speed, and not inattention.

So, in summary, as always, it's about the money, and nothing else. One last bit, the SHA released stats showing how well they have reduced work zone crashes since inplementing Speed Zones. Anyone want to bet what an overlay with the general drop in accidents would look like? the same, I'll bet.

[GURPS (Premo)]

clear up this indecent, then pay 5 bucks at DMV and get replacements - tell them the old ones were stolen

[Vince]

Originally Posted by bcp

I just find it hard to believe that you, one who is seriously against any enforcement, would have this keep happening to you where others, that really dont care about the enforcement have never had any problem.
I got one red light ticket, (riva at rt 50) but I knew I did it just as soon as I did it. So I was expecting it. Cant complain about that one at all.

I have had it happen twice also. Once on my old truck, a Red Ford Ranger. The truck in the photo was a white Ford F-150. Had to send photos of my truck with the plates. Took 6 months to clear it up. Next happened to my new Toyota Tacoma and this was another computer misinterpretation of the license plates with a Commercial panel Pipe Fitting Truck. Took about a year to clear this one up. In fact I just got the letter back saying that it was taken care of. And it what amazed me is that they actually thought I was going to drive up there and show up in court to clear it up. Told them you want me to drive to Baltimore to go to court to clear up a photo ticket that is not mine?!!

[glhs837]

Originally Posted by GURPS

clear up this indecent, then pay 5 bucks at DMV and get replacements - tell them the old ones were stolen

And might they ask for a police report number? Not that I really want to be lying to the DMV about plates anyway, it's not a huge deal, so far. Now, come the day I cant get stuff done at the MVA because of one of these, then it will be a bigger deal.

[GURPS (Premo)]

Originally Posted by glhs837

And might they ask for a police report number? - I think 99% of people never report 'missing' plates, I never did

Not that I really want to be lying to the DMV about plates anyway, it's not a huge deal, so far.

lost / stolen ..... I have not had to get replacements in yrs, but it was a painless process ....

[SoMDGirl42]

Originally Posted by GURPS

lost / stolen ..... I have not had to get replacements in yrs, but it was a painless process ....

I did have my plates stolen. I was pissed enough that they stole my plates, but I was even more pissed that I had to pay to replace my STOLEN plates. It's not like I asked someone to steal them. I feel that victims of crime are usually victimized twice. It sucks.

[jazz lady (Premo)]

Baltimore issued speed camera ticket to car stopped at red light - baltimoresun.com

The Baltimore City speed camera ticket alleged that the four-door Mazda wagon was going 38 miles per hour in a 25-mph zone — and that owner Daniel Doty owed $40 for the infraction.

But the Mazda wasn't speeding.

It wasn't even moving.

The two photos printed on the citation as evidence of speeding show the car was idling at a red light with its brake lights illuminated. A three-second video clip also offered as evidence shows the car motionless, as traffic flows by on a cross street.

The camera that wrongly ticketed Doty on April 24 is in Northeast Baltimore in the 1700 block of E. Cold Spring Lane, at the intersection with Hillen Road. It is the seventh city speed camera that The Baltimore Sun has shown to have produced inaccurate citations bearing erroneous speed readings.

Doty's is the first case in which the vehicle was clearly stationary. City officials gave no explanation for how it happened.