FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 Fresno city leaders want to bring back red-light cameras in an effort to crack down on reckless driving and reduce deadly crashes on city streets.<\/p>\n
City leaders say too many crashes, serious injuries and deaths are happening on Fresno roads and they believe stronger enforcement could help save lives.<\/p>\n
On Monday, FOX26 cameras captured multiple drivers running red lights at two different Fresno intersections within minutes.<\/p>\n
Councilmember Annalisa Perea says those violations are a clear example of why the city is considering bringing red-light cameras back.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeeding might save you a couple minutes, but it could cost you a life,\u201d Perea said.<\/p>\n
Perea says the data behind Fresno\u2019s traffic safety concerns is alarming.<\/p>\n
Fresno leaders consider bringing back red-light cameras to reduce deadly crashes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year alone we had more traffic-related fatalities than we did shooting-related fatalities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
According to Fresno\u2019s Vision Zero draft plan, from 2019 to 2023, the city recorded 217 deadly crashes and more than 600 severe injury crashes.<\/p>\n
The report also ranks Fresno seventh in the nation among major metro areas for pedestrian deaths.<\/p>\n
Perea says those numbers highlight a major problem and why city leaders are looking at every possible option to reduce fatalities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in the process of approving what’s called the Vision Zero plan which is a plan to hopefully get down to zero traffic related deaths,\u201d Perea said.<\/p>\n
The proposed plan aims to change driver behavior by installing cameras at dangerous intersections that would capture drivers running red lights and send citations directly to their homes.<\/p>\n
Perea says stronger enforcement could make drivers think twice before speeding through intersections.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re going to take lessons learned from the last time we had red light cameras in the city of Fresno and we’re going to hopefully develop a program that is successful in changing driver behavior,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The exact details including where the cameras would be placed and how much fines would cost are still being worked out.<\/p>\n
The Fresno City Council is expected to vote on the proposal next Thursday.<\/p>\n
If approved, Perea says the project could begin sometime this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 Fresno city leaders want to bring back red-light cameras in an effort to crack down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-311566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}