Red Light Runners
To read the recent LPS media release or to listen to AM980 News, you’d think that red-light running was something new to London or that the problem has just recently started to take off. But that’s simply not true. Click HERE to read a transcript of my 2002 verbal presentation to the city’s Community and Protective Services Committee.
As LPS spokespersons like Chief Murray Faulkner have often pointed out, their stats are closely tied to enforcement which is tied to resources. If the police aren’t targetting the illegal behaviour, there won’t be as many charges reflected in the stats. But that doesn’t mean that the behaviour isn’t happening.
The same can be said about Sgt. Tom O’Brien’s penchant for making remarks which might lead you to believe that most vehicle-pedestrian collisions are the fault of pedestrians (click HERE for an example). Don’t you believe it.
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We watched a guy drive through a red last night at commissioners and wellington. He had to start to swerve and cars in the middle of the intersection had to slam on breaks. it was soooo close and surreal to watch someone just decide not to stop.
Sometimes it’s not a decision, it’s negligence.
John: Agreed that sometime it’s negligence, but from my observations most often it’s a deliberate decision.