Why has the City of El Paso decided to utilize red light cameras?
Annually more than 3 million intersection crashes occur across the country, resulting in over 9,000 fatalities. Each year more than 50% of all reported crashes and 22% of all injury crashes occur in an intersection. In 2005 in the City of El Paso there were 8 accidents with 9 fatalities that occurred at intersections controlled by traffic lights. 50% of the accidents were attributed to red light running. So far in 2006 there have been 4 accidents with 4 deaths at intersections controlled by traffic lights. Of those 4 accidents, 3 are a result of a red light runner. It is believed the Automated Red Light Camera Enforcement program will reduce the number of red light violations thereby reducing the number of red light crashes, and injuries associated with such crashes. The purpose of this program is to increase traffic safety in the City of El Paso. The goal of this program is to reduce the number of red light violations, red light crashes, and red light injury crashes without impacting
