{"id":42756,"date":"2025-11-11T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42756\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:00:07","slug":"port-st-lucie-may-get-cameras-to-catch-red-light-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42756\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie may get cameras to catch red light runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Port St. Lucie, FL\/CBS12 News \u2014 Port St. Lucie officials may soon install cameras at several intersections to catch red light runners.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council voted Monday to approve the plan.<\/p>\n<p>City Council members will need to vote on the plan a second time before it would take effect.<\/p>\n<p>The Port St. Lucie Police Chief says police are seeing an uptick in traffic fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>He says so far this year in 2025, Port St. Lucie has had 12 fatal traffic crashes, which he says is one of the worst years on record for the city.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified 10 intersections in Port St. Lucie where they feel red light cameras would beneficial to stop drivers from running red lights.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cashmere Blvd. and St. Lucie West Blvd. is one of the intersections that could get red light cameras. (CBS12 News)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00b9cc32-70cf-48c0-8b7b-102d5b3a6dda-CashmereandSt.LucieWest.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cashmere Blvd. and St. Lucie West Blvd. is one of the intersections that could get red light cameras. (CBS12 News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the PD, we are committed to leveraging technology wherever possible in order to multiply our force.  Running a red light is a selfish act. It endangers the lives of other people,&#8221; said Port St. Lucie Police Chief Leo Niemczyk.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Chief did not say during Monday&#8217;s City Council meeting how much the fine would be for those who are caught on camera running a red light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie, FL\/CBS12 News \u2014 Port St. Lucie officials may soon install cameras at several intersections to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-42756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756","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=42756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}