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My mother-in-law calls and tells us that I got a ticket in the mail. (You have got to be kidding me?) I haven't had a ticket since the first year that I got my drivers license. That's been over 10 years ago. 12 years to be exact.
So of course, there has to be some evidence of the crime that I committed right. So I go to Photonotice.com, enter my citation number, license plate number and the city code PLANO.
Apparently, my misdeed was done on December 19, 2008 at 9:15pm where Plano Pkwy. and the service road of the tollway meet.
I see 3 photos at the top of the screen. The first two I can't quite make out as all I see are darkness and red lights. The last image shows my license plate.
So I play the 10 second video and I don't see anything, but a car sitting at a RED stoplight. Then I see a car drive up in the far right lane. This extremely considerate and cautious driver gently presses on the brake and makes a completely legal right turn on RED. But unfortunately, this extremely considerate and cautious driver never comes to a complete halt at this RED light (even though there was no one coming down the street for at least 1/8th of a mile. And that was my sin. I didn't stop. Although I'm still not so sure that even if a cop was sitting across the street patrolling the intersection at the time that he would have pulled me over for that.
Yeah I know it's the law, but I think my ticket was stupid. I could see if the video showed that what I did caused someone to have to swerve around me. Ridiculous. So now the State of Texas (or whoever owns the cameras) gets $75 of my hard earned money. It takes me two weeks to earn that kind of money... :o).
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2 comments:
You should dispute it to the court or take defensive driving because a lot of those tickets in Dallas are being reviewed & overturned because of the unlicensing of said red light cameras(Google this to find out more).
I've yet to get one of those, but several people I know have either by sitting over the pedestrian crosswalk line or purely running it.
T.
I just got the same such ticket in Tennessee. The thing that chaps me the most is that the money goes to a private company. It would be one thing if the crooked government was doing it. That just shows how dumb our federal gov't is to allow another company to collect kajillions of money for turning right on red when no one is coming for minutes. It is called common sense. It is a shame that we get punished for using it.
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