Lynnwood Snohomish County DUI Attorney: Lynnwood camera-enforced intersections, Safety Prevention or Money Grab?
The story is from the following website: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110701/BLOG48/707019953
We've pressed the city of Lynnwood to provide hard data about the reported safety benefits of traffic-enforcement cameras. Until now, we've received only national statistics cranked out by traffic-camera boosters and budget figures documenting the multimillion-dollar boon cameras have become to Lynnwood's bottom line.
Recently Lynnwood provided its best -- and as near as we can tell only -- analysis of accident data at intersections where cameras are used to issue red-light tickets.
The verdict? There isn't enough information to reach a conclusion on safety, according to Lynnwood police Cmdr. Chuck Steichen, who oversaw the analysis.
"It is difficult to say what the long-term effect of the systems will be given the limited trending data that we have," he said.
Steichen examined accidents at eight intersections where cameras have been installed. In all but one case, the analysis compared two years before and two years after.
The city's numbers suggest 17 fewer collisions at the intersections with cameras. Of the 183 after-camera crashes, 14 fewer involved some sort of injury.
But the same data show crashes were up or stayed the same at about half the intersections studied. Similar uneven results were seen for injury accidents.
Bottom line: It's premature for anyone to say red-light cameras have caused an outbreak of traffic safety in Lynnwood.
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http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110701/BLOG48/707019953
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