QUESTION ABOUT RED LIGHT CAMERAS IN WASHINGTON STATE

@JReding

 

Hay Scottie, he would only get a ticket if turning right.....right?!?!

 

You can contest it if you do get ticket. They do not give you points on record

 

If the front of your vehicle has passed the plane of the stop line before the light turns red, you are legal in Washington state. http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/traffic/rules-of-the-road/article108421942.html

 

Some 10 years ago my older sister got a ticket in CA for going through a red light. The documents they mailed her showed pictures of when the light was red and the car was behind the white line where the crosswalk is. I remember she told me that if she had been inside the intersection when it turned red, she would have been legal.

If you get a ticket, I’d say fight it. There’s a good chance you can beat it, especially if you have a dash cam.

 

I had a similar situation in Fife a year or so ago.
It was a big intersection, and from a stop, by the time I began to enter it had turned yellow.
Red before I finished my left turn.
I saw all the cams flash in the predawn darkness.

No Tix. I had entered the intersection prior to the red.

 

Arkansas light cameras are banned for enforcement, however they do exist everywhere for years for purposes of monitoring etc.

Im on light cameras with a semi before not too often but usually so big wiping out whatever is on it back in the day. Today they are much better and can see more.

That stop line is the key. The coil is under there usually. As long that light is not red when you put a wheel on or over it....