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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. -- Beware drivers: the grace period for ticket and fine warnings from recently installed red light cameras officially came to an end Friday.
The grace period was in place for 60 days at intersections in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach County Traffic Division was issuing warning notes to drivers who sped through intersections at Lantana and Jog Road traveling east and west, and also those traveling in three directions at the intersection of Powerline Road and Palmetto Park Road.
"The intent is for them to do some red light enforcement without an officer present, they are there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while our officers have to be a lot of different places," explained Dan Weisberg, Director of the Palm Beach County Traffic Division. "They've been shown to be somewhat effective at reducing red light violations where they're deployed."
Even now, new red light cameras are being installed at Atlantic Avenue and Jog Road, Hypoluxo Road and Military Trail, and Lake Worth Road and Military Trail. -- and these will not have a grace period.
All intersections with red light cameras have warning signs for drivers as they approach the light. Violators who are caught by the cameras going through a red light will be mailed $158 tickets. If not paid in 30 days, the tickets go up to $264.
Weisberg said the intersections where cameras are placed are carefully selected.
"Specifically we look for locations that had patterns of angle accidents, people that t-bone sometimes, or a left-hand turn accident, those would typically be accidents where one of the two bodies must have run a red light," he said.
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