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Red Light Running

  • Motorists are more likely to be injured in urban crashes involving red light running than in other types of urban crashes. 

       -Insurance Institute for Highway Safety                      

  • Red light running is estimated to produce more than 100,000 crashes and approximately 1,000 deaths per year in the United States. 

       -Federal Highway Administration                          

  • One in three Americans claim they personally know someone who has been injured or killed in a red light running crash. 

       -U.S. Department of Transportation and American Trauma Society Survey 

Speeding

  • Speeding is as much of a killer as drunk driving. In 2008, 11,674 people were killed in speeding-related crashes while 11,773 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. 

       -National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

  • Economic cost to society of speed-related crashes is $40.4 billion annually. 

       -NHTSA

  • Speeding was a contributing factor in more than one third (30%) percent of all fatal crashes nationally, including construction or maintenance zones. 

       -NHTSA

 

Studies 

  • In Arizona, the Scottsdale Pilot Speed Camera Program showed there was a 54% reduction in total crashes.  Speeds fell by about 9 mph and estimated cost savings was $17 million. 

       -Arizona State University, 2007    

  • In Iowa, Council Bluffs saw total crashes decrease by 44% and rear end collisions decrease by 40%. 

       -Iowa State University, 2007  

  • In Texas, there was a 30% total reduction in accidents since the use of red light cameras, with 43% reduction in the most dangerous right angle accidents. 

       -Texas A&M, 2008                                                           

  • In Virginia Beach, for locations with cameras, the relative risk of red light running was three times higher before cameras than after cameras were deployed.  In other words, red light running events reduced 69% with cameras. 

       -Old Dominion University, 2007

  • In Oxnard, crashes at signalized intersections were reduced by 7% and injury crashes were reduced by 29%.  Right-angle crashes, those most associated with red light violations, were reduced by 32%; right-angle crashes involving injuries were reduced by 68%. 

       -American Journal of Public Health, 2002