Will More Cities Follow Victorville’s Lead?

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–blog submitted to photoenforced.com by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets.  

 

At least three red light camera tickets issued in the city of Victorville have been thrown out by judges in San Bernardino Superior Court.

 

The city of Victorville has contracted with Redflex, an Arizona based, red light camera manufacturer, but as a result of court decisions proclaiming photographic evidence generated from the Redflex camera system as inadmissible evidence, the city is trying to get out of the contract. There are only 10 cameras left  turned on in Victorville (out of the original 16) however if court decisions keep going the way they are going, Redflex may have to let Victorville out of its contract and Victorville could turn off the remaining 10 cameras making many citizens happy. In fact, according to the VVDailyPress.com, Victorville’s contract with Redflex allows Victorville to get out of the contract if “any court having jurisdiction over city rules…that results from the Redflex System of photo enforcement are inadmissible in evidence”.

A common factor in a lot of these Redflex camera ticket cases that have been dismissed is that no one from the Arizona based Redflex company attends the trials, the company instead sends a written statement as to how its systems work and an officer from the issuing city testifies on his training about how the system works and the photographic evidence presented. Many judges are refusing to consider this a proper way to authenticate the evidence (photos and videos). There is at least one published court case that discusses this same issue, People v. Khaled.

 This leaves us to beg the question, will more and more judges follow the same lead these San Bernardino Superior court judges have taken and will more and more cities take Victorville’s lead in ending the use of these controversial camera enforcement systems. – blog submitted by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets. 

 

If you get cited for a red light photo ticket, contact us at www.staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud or call us at (800) 850-8038.  For Spanish, please visit www.Combatesuticket.com or call (818) 584-3689.  For more information on how TicketBust can help to beat your cell phone ticket, visit www.fightcellphonetickets.com or call (800) 850-8038. 

 

What You Should Know About Red Light Camera Tickets

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What You Should Know About Red Light Camera Tickets –submitted to PhotoEnforced.com by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets.  

Next time you get a red light ticket remember this. Red light camera tickets are very different from say a red light ticket handed to you by an officer. With a red light camera ticket, there is no “your word against the officer”. With a red light ticket issued by an officer you have to try and convince the court that the officer did not have a clear line of sight to your car, to the limit line for the red light, or the red light itself, at the time you went through the light. Red light camera tickets on the other hand are best dismissed if attacked from a technical based standpoint; after all it is a machine that ticketed you not an officer. And there are certain rules and requirements that are necessary to be present (or need to have been followed) in order for the red light camera ticket to be successfully held up in court against you.

For example there are rules regarding the length of yellow lights at camera enforced intersection, rules regarding how or when the actual notice of a red light camera violation is mailed out to the suspect violator, rules regarding what type of warning must be given about the presence or installation of a red light camera at an intersection, and rules regarding the types of fee arrangements cities having red light camera enforced intersections within their limits may have with private companies that manufacture and maintain the red light cameras. There is a lot of information out there available on the internet, so read about how these red light camera tickets work and learn what the rules are relating to them so that you can maximize your chances of getting out of a ticket like this. – blog submitted by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets. 

If you get cited for a red light photo ticket, contact us at www.staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud or call us at (800) 850-8038.  For Spanish, please visit www.Combatesuticket.com or call (818) 584-3689.  For more information on how TicketBust can help to beat your cell phone ticket, visit www.fightcellphonetickets.com or call (800) 850-8038. 

How to Begin Getting a Red Light Camera Ticket Dismissed

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As submitted to photoenforced.com 

 The first step to fighting any traffic infraction is to look up the vehicle code section you were cited with. The second step is to pick apart that vehicle code section in order to find out what the elements of the infraction are. If any of the elements necessary to be present in order to find someone guilty of the infraction are missing in your situation then you’re well on your way to getting your ticket dismissed.

 

Now a red light camera ticket will have the violation code listed as California Vehicle Code (CVC) section 21453. You can go online to www.legalinfo.ca.gov to look it up. However there is more involved to fighting a red light camera ticket.

 

You not only need to look up that code section which you were actually cited for, but you also need to look up a few additional code sections,  like what vehicle code section authorizes red light camera enforcement. Once you know what sections actually lay out the rules or requirements for the operation of red light cameras, you can write down those and then check to see if any of the rules were violated or requirements not followed in your case. Check out CVC§21453, CVC§ 21455.5, CVC§21455.6, CVC§ 21455.7, CVC§40518, if any rules listed in these code sections were violated, or requirements not followed, then you have ammunition for getting the ticket dismissed. – blog submitted by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets. 

 

If you get cited for a red light photo ticket, contact us at www.staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud or call us at (800) 850-8038.  For Spanish, please visit www.Combatesuticket.com or call (818) 584-3689.  For more information on how TicketBust can help to beat your cell phone ticket, visit www.fightcellphonetickets.com or call (800) 850-8038. 

 

Short Red Time (Late Time) on Your Red Light Camera Ticket?

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–blog submitted to photoenforced.com by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets.   

If you find yourself thinking you have no defense to a red light photo ticket, don’t give up yet! You can still try to argue you could not have stopped safely within such a short time and short distance from the limit line and slamming on the brakes would have posed a greater danger to yourself and others then continuing through.

 

Look on your ticket for the late time (for example on a Red Flex ticket this will be displayed on the black bar across the top of the photos displayed vertically on the right hand side). If the red light camera ticket you received has a very short late time for example, one tenth of a second (0.1), wouldn’t it have been very difficult to stop behind the limit line for the light when it changed? Even more so if it was raining. Perhaps slamming on the brakes would have resulted in you skidding into the middle of the intersection where you would have blocked traffic.

 

If your ticket does not show a late time then you can usually judge how long the light had been red by the position of other vehicles around you. If there were other vehicles turning left at the same time as you or going straight through and cross traffic hasn’t moved past their limit line, then it’s likely the light wasn’t red for long at all.  Of course if you were turning right, it’s more likely than not that the light was already red and that you rolled through, so it’s chancy if you don’t have the red time.

The majority of tickets do show the red time and you stand a better chance if the red time is below five-tenths of a second (0.5) because although the law does not mandate them to do so, some local governments employ grace periods of up to before their red light cameras will begin taking photographs. Grace periods such as these are employed because it is understood that the shorter the red time the less likely the driver could have stopped in time. You stand an even better chance if that red time is three-tenths of a second (0.3) or below because as previously indicated by the Federal Highway Administration, a grace period of three-tenths of a second is commonly used and five-tenths of a second is the international standard. –  blog submitted by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets. 

If you get cited for a red light photo ticket, contact us at www.staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud or call us at (800) 850-8038.  For Spanish, please visit www.Combatesuticket.com or call (818) 584-3689.  For more information on how TicketBust can help to beat your cell phone ticket, visit www.fightcellphonetickets.com or call (800) 850-8038. 

 

Ticketbust Saves this Client by Getting His Red Light Photo Ticket Dismissed

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Mom Gets Daughter’s Red Light Ticket Dismissed Using staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud

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Karla D writes, “My daughter, Maxcy, got a red light ticket , even though the light had not appeared to change colors from one picture to the next.  I thought we’d give the Ticket Busters a try..I sure did not want to go thru the courtroom experience if I didn’t have to.  When it got dismissed I couldn’t have been more surprised that it actually worked!   I am still pinching myself…is this a dream? All for only 250.00.  Her ticket was almost 500.00 not to mention whatever her insurance would of gone up to.  If it hadn’t of worked I would of just had to pay Ticket Busters 150.00 for filing.  Sure I could of done it myself..but done it right?  I think not.  Oh yes, I contacted a lawyer who quoted me 800.00.  So, I think this is a pretty good deal!  I am recommending them to my friends.  Good luck with your ticket. A pleased Agoura Hills mom,  Karla D.”

Check the Certificate of Mailing Date and Get Your Red Light Camera Ticket Dismissed

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Check the Certificate of Mailing Date and Get Your Red Light Camera Ticket Dismissed -originally submitted to the photoenforced.com blog by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets.

After a careful review of the red light camera ticket you’ve received, you will notice that there is an area titled “Certificate of Mailing” and listed here will be the date the ticket was mailed to you.
You will want to compare this date to the date when the alleged violation occurred (usually listed in the upper left corner). Should the date the ticket was mailed to you fall past 15 days after the date of the alleged violation, then you’ll be glad to hear the California Vehicle Code section 40518 (a) requires a written notice to appear based on an alleged violation of California Vehicle Code section 21453 must be delivered to the registered owner within 15-days of the violation.
This California Law gives police only a limited amount of time to deliver a genuine notice to appear to the registered owner. Logically this make sense because most people have no recollection of even going through a red light, so they should be given ample notice if they did so they can remember where they were, what they were doing, or if someone else was driving their car at the time.
So if you are the registered owner of the vehicle pictured on the ticket and the ticket you received was mailed to you 16 days or more past the date of the violation, then there is a good chance you can get this dismissed on a technicality. – blog submitted by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets.
If you get cited for a red light photo ticket, contact us at www.staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud or call us at (800) 850-8038. For Spanish call (818) 584-3689. For more information on how TicketBust can help to beat your cell phone ticket call (800) 850-8038.

New Client Video Testimonial: TicketBust Saves the Holidays by Fighting Traffic Tickets

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We recently posted a new video testimonial from a client who saved $480 in traffic tickets fines.  She opened the letter from the court on Christmas Eve and said it was her favorite gift!

What LA Courts are Doing if You Don’t Pay Your Red Light Camera Ticket

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Submitted to photoenforced.com blog by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets.    

Pursuant to a recent LA Times article about camera tickets, word has gotten around that LA courts don’t report to the DMV if a person fails to respond to a Camera Ticket.

Some people are saying what’s the point of fighting it then?

Well, if the registered owner fails to respond, the court will send a notice stating additional $300 will be imposed if not paid within 10 days. After that the registered owner’s name is sent to collections. So although the DMV won’t be notified to suspend the driver’s license, a collections agency will be harassing them and could have a major negative impact on their credit score.

LA Superior Court may be one of the only counties, if not the only county, having this policy and it has this policy because in the court’s opinion, since the registered owner may not necessarily be the driver it is not fair to suspend the registered owner’s license without knowing they were the driver.

Keep in mind that the LA Times article is only specific to registered owners whose name appears on the ticket. So you will be taking a gamble if you are not the registered owner and your name was turned in by the registered owner and yet you still choose to ignore the ticket.

Also in choosing to ignore ticket and let collections come after them, all persons are taking a gamble that the court doesn’t choose to change their policy at that time. It is a policy the court has elected to make, they were not mandated to do so, so really it could change at any time without notice.  –  blog submitted by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets. If you get cited for a red light photo ticket, contact us at www.staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud or call us at (800) 850-8038.  For Spanish, please visit www.Combatesuticket.com or call (818) 584-3689.  For more information on how TicketBust can help to beat your cell phone ticket, visit www.fightcellphonetickets.com or call (800) 850-8038. 

Distinction Between “Rolling Right” and Straight Through Violations

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Distinction Between “Rolling Right” and Straight Through Violations –submitted to photoenforced.com’s blog by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets.   

If you made a right hand turn at a red light and were nabbed by a camera, chances are that the ticket you received in the mail states you violated CVC§21453(a) even though they could have (some argue should have) cited you for CVC§21453(b). Here are both of these sections:

21453 Circular Red or Red Arrow

 (a) A driver facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at a marked limit line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then before entering the intersection, and shall remain stopped until an indication to proceed is shown, except as provided in subdivision (b).

(b) Except when a sign is in place prohibiting a turn, a driver, after stopping as required by subdivision (a), facing a steady circular red signal, may turn right, or turn left from a one-way street onto a one-way street. A driver making that turn shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to any vehicle that has approached or is approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard to the driver, and shall continue to yield the right-of-way to that vehicle until the driver can proceed with reasonable safety. 

Now, here’s the distinction:

 

The first section (a) says nothing about right turns, and is basically used for those who go straight through a red light.

 

The second section (b) essentially says you can turn after stopping if there is no sign prohibiting a turn on red. 

 

So if you made a “California rolling stop” why wouldn’t you be cited for the second section (b) instead of (a) you might ask…

 

Check out this “Traffic Infraction Penalty Schedule” (from the January 2010 Edition Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules, California Rules of Court, Rule 4,102):

 

Section:           21453 (a, c)

Offense: “Red” Signal- Vehicular Responsibilities  

Total Bail/Fee (Keep in mind the so called “Total Bail” is before certain additional court or other fees that is added and there are 30 counties in CA authorized by law to exceed the total bail/fee):$380.00

 

Section:           21453 (b)                   

Offense: “Red” Signal- Vehicular Responsibilities With Right Turn

Total Bail/Fee (Keep in mind the so called “Total Bail” is before certain additional court or other fees that is added and there are 30 counties in CA authorized by law to exceed the total bail/fee):$146.00

 

So you can see the difference between the two price- wise is huge! For some cities, like Los Angeles, CA most of the revenue is generated by right turns, in fact an LA Times article from December last year reported that according to the Los Angeles Police Department, an estimated 8 in 10 photo tickets were issued for right turns so now wonder police department’s are issuing tickets under Vehicle code section 21453 (a) regardless of whether or not the motorist was turning right. –  blog submitted by staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud, helping drivers contest and dismiss their traffic tickets. If you get cited for a red light photo ticket, contact us at www.staging-vadusuxe.kinsta.cloud or call us at (800) 850-8038.  For Spanish, please visit www.Combatesuticket.com or call (818) 584-3689.  For more information on how TicketBust can help to beat your cell phone ticket, visit www.fightcellphonetickets.com or call (800) 850-8038.