[Half Vast Conspiracy]

In the seven years the program has been in operation, the number of broadside, or “T-bone” crashes at the three intersections has declined 53 percent, according to a city report prepared for the mayor. In the seven years prior to the cameras there were 62 crashes, or 8.9 per year. With the cameras operating the seven-year total was 29 crashes, or 4.1 per year. However, the number of rear-end accidents at these intersections increased 8 percent during the seven years of the right-light camera program, the report said.

Interesting, but the pertinent stat is the total number of crashes at the intersections,

[cuban leaf]

Also, the numbers are pretty low. I don’t know if they are large enough to be “empirical”.

[Pox]

The first one on that list almost got me about 3 weeks ago. I was beginning my right hand turn and it went yellow, I couldn’t possibly stop, so when I completed my turn I looked back and saw the light was red already, so I spent the last 2 weeks anxiously looking in my mailbox for bad news.

I hate those things.