REDFLEXred® results

  • In Prescott Valley, Arizona, red light running violations dropped 97 percent between February and July of 2007, from 836 violations to merely 25.
  • An Iowa State University study released in December 2007 found red light cameras were "very successful" in reducing red light running collisions by 90 percent in Council Bluffs and 40 percent in Davenport. Researchers found no increase in rear-end collisions.
  • Dayton, Ohio reduced red light running violations by 44 percent since automated enforcement cameras were introduced in 2003. The average number of annual intersection crashes dropped 37 percent.
  • Red light cameras in Columbus, Ohio decreased red light running crashes and violations since their 2006 rollout. City officials saw a 71 percent decrease in violations at the initial two intersections, from 1,684 violations in March 2006 to 477 in August.
  • Automated enforcement cameras are credited with reducing collisions involving red light running by 62 percent in El Paso, Texas in 2007 at camera-controlled intersections. Right-angle accidents were reduced by 45 percent, serious injury accidents by 38 percent, and the city has seen no spike in rear-end accidents.
  • Plano, Texas police reported nearly 50 percent fewer collisions at four of the city's photo-enforced intersections since cameras were installed in March 2006. Collisions were reduced by as much as 30 percent at other intersections.
  • Red light running violations spiked nearly 100 percent in Virginia Beach, Virginia at four photo-enforced intersections in the six months after cameras were switched off for evaluation. Preliminary results from a 2007 study by Old Dominion University found red light cameras reduced red light running by 69 percent in Virginia Beach.