{"id":67829,"date":"2025-12-02T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67829\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:59:07","slug":"nearly-80000-red-light-tickets-generate-9-4m-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67829\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 80,000 red light tickets generate $9.4M in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla.  \u2013 Orange County released its annual red light camera report, revealing that 79,569 tickets were issued to drivers running red lights from July 2024 to June 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">By the time of the report, 44,470 had been paid, and the program generated more than $9.4 million in revenue during that period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Orange County has 57 red light cameras in 35 intersections. These cameras capture drivers who run red lights and send them a $158 ticket by mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Orange County received $5.3 million of the total revenue, while $3.5 million went to the state of Florida. Most of the county\u2019s share is used to maintain the cameras, with the remainder allocated to the public works budget for traffic-related projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/features\/2021\/07\/28\/heres-what-it-means-to-become-a-news-6-insider-its-cool-and-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Become a News 6 Insider (it\u2019s FREE)<\/a>| PINIT! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2023\/04\/12\/changes-have-arrived-to-pinit-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Share your photos<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The goal of the program is to improve safety and reduce traffic-related deaths and serious injuries on county roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">However, some drivers, like Aaron Lineberry, expressed frustration with the number of cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"> \u201cI can understand why they want him. But I think that they need to be a little bit more lenient if somebody is going to a yellow light, because a lot of these lights seem like they change too quickly,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s enough. I mean, I\u2019m a delivery person. I see a lot of them. Luckily, my GPS tells me there\u2019s a camera light up there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/20\/orlando-city-council-to-vote-on-adding-55-more-red-light-cameras-across-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/20\/orlando-city-council-to-vote-on-adding-55-more-red-light-cameras-across-city\/\">RELATED<\/a>: 55 more red light cameras coming to Orlando]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The presence of \u201cphoto-enforced\u201d signs is expected to increase, as nearby Orlando recently voted to add 55 more cameras, and Osceola County is adding cameras to three additional intersections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Data from the annual report shows a 36 percent reduction in crashes at intersections with red light cameras since the program began in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">You can read the full report in the media player below.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Orange County released its annual red light camera report, revealing that 79,569 tickets were issued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1335,139,141,140,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-67829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orange-county","9":"tag-orlando","10":"tag-orlando-headlines","11":"tag-orlando-news","12":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67829","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=67829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}