Data Shows Crashes Reduced at Red-Light Camera Intersections
Rear-end and right-angle crashes at 10 red-light camera intersections in Newark drop over two-year period
Red-light cameras in Newark have helped reduce the amount of rear-end and right-angle crashes at 10 city intersections, according to data released Wednesday.
Right-angle crashes are down 43 percent and rear-end crashes are down 25 percent at the 10 intersections that have had red-light cameras for two years. The data also shows that the most dangerous right-angle crashes, caused by red-light running, dropped by 100 percent at several major intersections in Newark. (See list below.)
"The data clearly shows that Newark has successfully used traffic safety cameras to reduce crashes and has a huge impact on driver behavior in the state," said Traffic Safety Coalition Co-Chair Paul Oberhauser whose daughter was tragically killed by a red-light runner in 2002, in a statement. "Newark’s traffic safety camera program is working."
In 2009, New Jersey's largest city became the first to implement an intersection safety camera program and recently expanded it to 19 of the most dangerous intersections across the city.
In July, New Jersey Department of Transportation ruled red-light cameras in 21 communities, including Newark, were operating in accordance with state law. The DOT had previously suspended the municipalities from issuing red-light camera violations after questions arose over the duration of yellow-light signals.
Reductions in right angle crashes:
- Broad Street and Raymond Boulevard –100 percent reduction in right angle crashes
- Broad Street and Murray Street –100 percent reduction in right angle crashes
- McCarter Highway and Lafayette Street –100 percent reduction in right angle crashes
- McCarter Highway and South Street - 66 percent reduction in right angle crashes
- McCarter Highway and Market Street - 60 percent reduction in right angle crashes
- Broad Street and Market Street – No reduction in right angle crashes (1 pre-camera, 1 post camera)
- McCarter Highway and Edison Place - No reduction in right angle crashes (zero pre-camera, zero post camera)
- Mulberry Street and Market Street - No reduction in right angle crashes (zero pre-camera, zero post camera)
- Raymond Boulevard and Raymond Plaza West – No reduction in right angle crashes (zero pre-camera, zero post camera)
- Raymond Boulevard and Prospect Street – No reduction in right angle crashes (1 pre-camera, 1 post camera)
Reductions in rear-end crashes:
- Broad Street and Murray Street – 50 percent increase in rear-end crashes
- McCarter Highway and Lafayette Street – 40 percent reduction in rear end crashes
- McCarter Highway and South Street - 28 percent reduction in rear-end crashes
- Raymond Boulevard and Raymond Plaza West – 25 percent reduction in rear-end crashes
- Broad Street and Raymond Boulevard – 20 percent reduction in rear-end crashes
- Raymond Boulevard and Prospect Street – 16 percent reduction in rear-end crashes
- Mulberry Street and Market Street - No reduction in rear-end crashes (zero pre-camera, zero post camera)
- McCarter Highway and Edison Place - 100 percent reduction in rear-end crashes
- McCarter Highway and Market Street - 72 percent reduction in rear-end crashes
- Broad Street and Market Street – 50 percent reduction in rear-end crashes
Brandt Hardin
10:38 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Traffic cameras are just another form of Policing for Profit as Capitalism distorts our Justice System. These companies are bottom-feeders and take a 40% cut of the tickets while creating MORE dangerous intersections by fixing the lengths of yellow lights to entrap drivers. You can read about how private companies and crooked politicians have turned our Police forces on their ear in every attempt to squeeze money out of the general public at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-privatized-police-state.html
Brian Ceccarelli
11:40 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012
This entire article is fraud. It is a felony to publish an article which makes false statements to secure payment. The reason why the crashes went down is because the NJDOT increased the yellow change and the all-red clearance intervals--to rectify engineering mistakes which NJ punishes drivers for. Note that the article never investigates why drivers run red lights to begin with and that the vast majority of crashes continue without investigative reflection. But the assumption is that drivers all have a death wish and that traffic engineers are infallible. The behavior of drivers at intersections is a direct result of how poor or well engineers design those intersections. And even now, even with O'Scanlon's engineering fixes, the federal standards which set yellow lights force all drivers in common situations to run red lights. 99.99999% of all red light running is caused by the NJDOT simply implementing the federal standards. All that beating the light behavior is the fault of the federal standard which sets a yellow to half the time it takes a driver to stop. In a single point in time, the mandate to stop turns into the mandate to go and the NJDOT never reveals where or when that point is. A split second wrong guess is a 100 bucks penalty inflicted upon the driver because of an omission made by a traffic engineer.
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