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Question by Emily: Will my auto insurance rates go up if I get a red light camera ticket?
This is my first red light camera ticket but my second ticket this year. The first one was a speeding ticket. Will my auto insurance rates go up for a red light ticket?

Best answer:

Answer by Rocky Squirrel
Your insurance rate only goes up depending in which State you live. In States where red light camera tickets are civil penalities, then No. In States where red light camera tickets are treated like normal red light tickets; that is, a criminal misdemeanor, then Yes.

In all cases, all red light camera tickets are illegal no matter where you live. Your department of transportation does not paint the safe braking distance line on the road as required by the equation they use to set the yellow light duration. It’s a huge engineering defect we all overlooked so long as the police enforced the law. The police realize that deciding to stop or go when seeing a light turn yellow is a guess . . . and grant you leniency when you guess wrong by a fraction of a second.

Red light cameras are precision computers and do not allow the guess. The DOT must paint the line so that traversing an intersection upon seeing a yellow is not a guess.

Get tough and sue your city.

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