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Since you sent in paperwork back to them you admitted you received the ticket. Best to go down and show them it wasn't you and see what happens.
Best thing to do is never respond and force them to serve you or they will just lose out and you are good to go.
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Originally Posted by sniper7
The other way to think about this specific situation is your wife actually did run the red light and therefore she should pay the fine.
Yes, it's a money making scam for the city. I got one from Aurora and just paid the damn thing. It was not worth the hassle or the possible effects on my clearance to fight the stupid thing. Just gave me more reason to avoid the metro area.
If, according to the OP, she couldn't do so safely and the best course of action was to just go through it, I'm sure a reasonable LEO, with consideration for the conditions, would not issue a ticket at all if it was a patrol officer and not a camera. Cameras can only get part of the story. I know I've ran a red or two before in crummy conditions and the light changed right in that sweet spot where stopping could be dangerous but not stopping would mean running the red.Quote:
Originally Posted by newracer
Then you are traveling too fast for the conditions which is another violation in itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
So you reject any possibility that someone could be in the perfect spot, driving at a reasonably safe speed, and have that problem? You've never been traveling on a road and the light changes at the point where you either won't be able to stop in time or you won't make it through before red? Never ever?Quote:
Originally Posted by newracer
A couple years ago I had my picture taken while driving my wife's car 5 mph over the speed limit on Yosemite, just North of 225. There was an unmarked, black Scion with a cone behind it, parked on the side of the road in the bus lane, and it snapped my picture as I passed. My wife got the ticket with my picture in the mail. She signed the paper saying it was not her and sent it back in. I got the ticket with my name on it about 4 months later. It was about $40, and since I actually was guilty, I paid it and went on with my life.
A thread gets posted here every couple months where people are complaining about red light cameras and discussing ways of not paying the fine for getting caught running a red light. Colorado is the only place I've ever lived where you can bet money that at least one car will run the red at every intersection, in every direction, at every iteration of the light. You aren't special; wait your turn.
Newracer is correct; if the road conditions are poor, you're supposed to slow down appropriately. If the light has been green for a while (a stale green), you're supposed to take your foot off the gas and anticipate the light change. They teach all of this in driver's ed. There's no excuse for running red lights IMO.
I got a photo radar ticket going 6 over heading southbound on Colorado blvd just south of mlk blvd. By the time I received the ticket after it went through fleet operations, and then to my department it was do the very next day. I paid it and went on with my life. I was in the wrong, I paid the price.
That's weird... I've always bought the "no ticket if they can't prove it was you" idea (that's what I get for sourcing life-actions from the internet. :-) and made sure my face was obscured when I had the "oh shit it's a photo van" moment. Had my picture taken 3 times, never got a ticket. (And yes, I was legitimately speeding.)