MIAMI (Reuters) – A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law.
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2/12/2010
Accidents increase 18 percent nine months after red light cameras are installed in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Las Cruces, NM: City Council Photo enforcement may not be improving traffic safety in Las Cruces, New Mexico. According to preliminary data presented to the city council on Monday, the installation of red light cameras and speed cameras in March 2009 has thus far failed to produce any statistically significant reduction in accidents. The city’s public works department, in close consultation with Redflex Traffic Systems, did try to argue that the numbers showed the program was worth keeping.
“Another positive outcome for red light cameras,” Traffic Engineering Administrator Dan Soriano said. “The severity is dropping.”
The raw data, on the other hand, tells a different story. The total number of accidents increased 18 percent from 39 collisions before cameras were installed to 46 after installation, while the number of injury accidents remained essentially the same. The city data only covered three of the four monitored intersections from March 2008 to December 2008, before cameras, in comparison to the same period a year later, after cameras. According to Soriano, the fourth intersection was excluded because of road construction.
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