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The Moshing Beltway Elites [Journolist] »
November 23, 2010
The law of unintended consequences
West Palm Beach put in red-light cameras a while ago.
...In West Palm Beach, overall accidents at the camera intersections decreased to 26 compared with 38 a year earlier, and damage cited in police reports fell below $96,000 from more than $113,000. But rear-end collisions climbed almost 30 percent to 17 from 13, and recorded injuries rose....
The cameras obviously did nothing to deter the rampant south FL tailgating resulting in the increase of rear-end collisions as people panic stop when a light starts changing.