Red light cameras have become tantamount to cockroaches in South Florida. It seems like they pop up everywhere and trying to rid ourselves of the hordes seems to be an endeavor that is as equally challenging as the banishment of these pests. Like with a cockroach infestation, it is time [...]
The city of Hollywood violated state law by relying on a private company to issue red light camera citations, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday according to the Sun Sentinel. The ruling came in a case involving motorist Eric Arem, who received a citation from American Traffic Solutions Inc., the [...]
Approximately a thousand people a day move to Florida, many of them to Miami-Dade County. In fact according to the 2013 U.S. census, of the nearly 20 million people who reside in Florida, more than 13% of its residents live in Miami-Dade. If you are one of these people, welcome [...]
How many times have you been driving and wondered to yourself, “Who in the world came up with these traffic patterns; who decided to put so many traffic lights in this area; and why is the speed limit so ridiculously slow?” We often blame our local politicians, but it’s actually [...]
Red Light Cameras | A Ploy to Gouge Drivers There are very few people who support the use of red light cameras, least of all me, and the ones who do are generally politicians. These traffic cameras have one purpose and one purpose only, and that is it to continue [...]
No Cop, No Stop | Wait! What’s that in the Bushes? As most Broward County residents know, the use of red light traffic cameras is hotly debated. Local governments profit from them and many drivers are screwed over by them. As prolific as these traffic camera tickets are, the second [...]
I am a traffic ticket attorney. That has been my chosen profession for more than 15 years, and I will defend drivers for any type of traffic citation although there are some laws that I agree with such as not texting while driving. Even though this is a secondary offense, [...]
Don’t drink and drive; I have stressed this for as long as I have been a traffic ticket attorney. It’s never worth the risk – not worth risking injury to yourself or someone else, and it’s not worth the penalties that you can incur if you are convicted of this [...]
I have made my feelings explicitly clear about getting red light cameras tossed out of Florida, and recently we were thiiiiisssss close. Just when so many of us who drive in Miami-Dade thought that we could breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of these money pits getting the [...]
I can’t begin to count the number of times that I have been told, “I have never gotten a speeding ticket.” My usual response is something along the lines of, “Just wait.” Statistical averages would indicate that you are likely to get a traffic ticket every two years, and when [...]