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What Happens If I Stop On A Crosswalk?

by Jeff Cohn | Friday, June 13, 2008 | , , , , | 3 comments »

Question from a reader: What happens if the light just turned yellow and I chose to stop, but stopped with my front tires on the first limit lines of the crosswalk? Thereafter, when the traffic light turned red. I proceeded to back up a little bit. Was the photo captured? Am I at fault? I receive this question from readers about once per week. I don't have the answer and would like to ask my readers what have you experienced. Did you get a ticket? Please submit your comments below.

3 comments

  1. Anonymous // June 15, 2008  

    NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 1111-a
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each city with a population of one million or more is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend a local law or ordinance establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic control indications in such city in accordance with the provisions of this section.
    Such demonstration program shall empower a city to install and operate traffic-control signal photo-monitoring devices at No More Than FIFTY intersections within such city at any one time.

    CURRENTLY THERE ARE 397 UNITS AS OF A PRIVATE COUNT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
    Bronx = 63; Brooklyn = 105; Manhattan = 118; Queens = 109; Richmond = 2.

    That is currently 347 to many!!!

    Click and paste the link below to see them all. Print copies of the Law and the list of cameras to your hearing....

    http://www.photoenforced.com/ny.html

    FIGHT EVERY VIOLATION AS A VIOLATION OF SECTION 111-A(A) AS STATED ABOVE!!!!

  2. mystere's moonbat slayer club // February 21, 2009  

    Police departments in California use discretion when citing anyone who runs a red light, and gets caught on a photo enforced camera. Greedy cities like Santa Ana might try to ticket the motorist, but it's hard to say. I can say this about a time when a camera recently triggered off on me in Fullerton: I did not get a notice when I was finishing a right turn when the light turned red on me, and my rear wheels triggered the camera. My front end had already crossed the line a fraction of a second before the yellow light changed to red. One factor to consider though: I have plate covers, which may have blinded the camera.

  3. Anonymous // December 04, 2009  

    In Arizona, you cannot block a crosswalk when somebody is using it, and you cannot enter the actual intersection on a red light. But everybody knows that sometimes you cross the line. The first law is rarely enforced. I have seen some laws in other states thought that require that if the light is red that you stop before the crosswalk and stay there until the light is green.

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