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There's something to say about how statistics can be interpreted. Using their their own data on Houston [1] when the cameras were in operation there were 10 fa
by iotku 7y ago
There's something to say about how statistics can be interpreted.
Using their their own data on Houston [1] when the cameras were in operation there were 10 fatal accidents, and with them banned there were 13 fatal accidents despite there being over twice as many overall accidents reported.
That's plenty within margin of error or normal variance which doesn't say much about the red light camera's effectiveness as far as fatalities are concerned (the article says "people will die").
Says nothing as to why people would run a red light as well. Are there new distractions between 2010-2014 that weren't as common in 2006-2010? Are they distracted by cell phones? I don't know, but there's more variables at play than just "is there a red light camera here" when it comes to people running red lights.
[1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/08/12/crashes-doubled-after-houston-banned-red-light-cameras/ https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/08/12/crashes-doubled-after...