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Viper25 12-12-2018 02:51 PM

Red light camera
 
Are red light camera fines on driving records? Thanks!

rickair7777 12-12-2018 03:07 PM

Most likely, if it was a moving violation (which would be the point).

Droopy 12-12-2018 04:44 PM

It depends, but most areas I've looked at they are cited as parking violations.

Go figure and realize that it is different state to state.

GogglesPisano 12-12-2018 05:01 PM

It’s difficult for the authorities to prove who the driver is without a stop. They usually send the summons to the registered owner. Usually they expect the owner to pay with the caveat that no points go against the owner’s driver’s license.

Read the fine print on your final paperwork.

Viper25 12-12-2018 06:19 PM


Originally Posted by Droopy (Post 2724066)
It depends, but most areas I've looked at they are cited as parking violations.

Go figure and realize that it is different state to state.

Parking violations don’t follow you around?

SonicFlyer 12-12-2018 06:52 PM

Red light infractions in most states are a legal grey area and most of the time are not actually enforceable. In some places they are "civil violations" and not moving or criminal violations. It all depends on your state laws.


Regardless, the things are a scam.

rickair7777 12-12-2018 06:59 PM


Originally Posted by Python1287 (Post 2724105)
Parking violations don’t follow you around?

Not for airlines.

Unless you have an outstanding warrant for not paying. Or they send it to collections and it shows up on your credit report.

Cirrus2turbine 12-14-2018 04:45 PM


Originally Posted by Python1287 (Post 2724017)
Are red light camera fines on driving records? Thanks!

NO! Well depends on teh state, but I'm in Law Enforcement in NY and it does not. Nor in NJ, CT, NH, MA etc.

PRS Guitars 12-15-2018 03:37 PM


Originally Posted by SonicFlyer (Post 2724119)
Red light infractions in most states are a legal grey area and most of the time are not actually enforceable. In some places they are "civil violations" and not moving or criminal violations. It all depends on your state laws.


Regardless, the things are a scam.

In Colorado it is not enforceable unless you are served in person. So if you get a ticket in the mail, ignore it. They know that lots of folks will just pay it, and it’d be way too expensive to serve everybody in person.

John Carr 12-16-2018 11:38 AM


Originally Posted by PRS Guitars (Post 2725919)
In Colorado it is not enforceable unless you are served in person. So if you get a ticket in the mail, ignore it. They know that lots of folks will just pay it, and it’d be way too expensive to serve everybody in person.

Sort of true, that was the thinking for a long long time. I believe they get around it by saying the person that sits in the van is the “in person”. There were too many people that would take the time to ask for an appearance in front of a judge, so they found a work around to get your money. Talk to your lawyer about it.

IIRC, the guy in the van or the person reviewing the ticket before making is the signature at the bottom that counts as the “server”.

If you don’t pay, then they hand it over to collections.

Then you get to deal with those people.

About the only “easy” way out is if the picture of you is fuzzy or your DL pic has little resemblence to you now, etc.


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