{"id":369935,"date":"2026-08-13T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369935\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:52:10","slug":"winter-park-red-light-violations-come-from-improper-right-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369935\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park red-light violations come from improper right turns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter Park report shows most red-light violations come from improper right turns<\/p>\n

\"Kennedy<\/a>WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

The Winter Park police chief presented a report on red-light camera violations, revealing that most infractions occur when drivers fail to stop properly at right-turn lanes. <\/p>\n

The city currently has eight red-light cameras installed at six intersections. During the 2025-2026 fiscal year, Winter Park issued more than 25,000 red-light camera citations, with 17,300 of those\u2014approximately 70%\u2014being for improper right turns on red. Most of these citations were paid, generating about $3.07 million in revenue. <\/p>\n

“The total amount received by the city for general purposes, law enforcement, was $1,418,828.80,” said Winter Park Police Chief Tim Volkerson. “The total amount received by the city for the police training fund was $3,798. The total allocation from the red-light program during the reporting period was 3 million\u2014$3,067,743.80.”<\/p>\n

The chief said there is signage posted before each intersection with a red-light camera indicating that the area is photo-enforced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winter Park report shows most red-light violations come from improper right turns WINTER PARK, Fla. \u2014 The Winter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[187,962,149715,149711,2620,1598,149719,149716,139,141,140,149710,149718,149717,149720,149714,149713,149712],"class_list":["post-369935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-city","tag-fiscal-year","tag-general-purpose","tag-improper-right-turn","tag-intersection","tag-law-enforcement","tag-most-infraction","tag-most-red-light-violation","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-red-light-camera-violation","tag-red-light-program","tag-reporting-period","tag-total-allocation","tag-total-amount","tag-winter-park-police-chief","tag-winter-park-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}