Red Light Pile-up

One of the consequences of Marty's Red Light Districts... rear-end collisions rise. If you were near the intersection of Wyoming & Academy around 4:45 pm today you were treated to a real live example.

While approaching one of Marty's Red Light "photo enforced" intersections at Wyoming & Academy, a northbound vehicle slammed on it's brakes to avoid a starring role in Marty's home movies. The result... the vehicle directly behind him made an unwanted guest appearance in the first vehicle's back seat and a 3rd vehicle compounded the problem by slamming into the 2nd vehicle.

The accident (read consequence) tied up traffic right at rush hour and endangered emergency personnel who were on the scene braving rush hour traffic. The first vehicle avoided a $100 fine by endangering the lives of the drivers behind them and also endangered the lives of the emergency personnel who dispatched to the scene.

We don't know the condition of any of the drivers or passengers involved in today's Red Light Camera Calamity, but we do know that eventually a driver who's trying to avoid a $100, $250, or $500 "citation" is going to kill someone, maybe even be killed themselves. This is certainly a case where a driver's judgment might have led him to decide to continue through the intersection. But if they had, they wouldn't have been able to defend themselves in one of Marty's Kangaroo Courts, because they probably wouldn't be able to remember the incident.