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By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Quebec City gave the green light last week for Laval to install photo radar at the city\u2019s four deadliest intersections.<\/p>\n

The city gave the Robocop devices the municipal thumbs-up during this week’s the city council meeting, July 8.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe proposal is to place red light surveillance cameras in areas where we see excessive speed combined with failure to comply with red lights, leading to severe, right-angle accidents in busy traffic,\u201d Laval Police Sgt. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jean told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview.<\/p>\n

The four intersections slated to get red-light cameras will be:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Laurentides & St. Martin
\u2022 Laurentides & Dagenais
\u2022 Cur\u00e9 Labelle & St. Martin
\u2022 St. Martin & le Corbusier<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the four will also get photo radar to detect speeding, as well as going through a red light,\u201d Sgt. Jean added, \u201cso if someone accelerates beyond the speed limit through the intersection, they they will receive both a speed limit and a traffic signal infraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that the four intersections were selected based on traffic density, the potential traffic jams conventional police traffic enforcement would cause at rush hour, and the number of accidents that have already occurred there.<\/p>\n

Over a five-year period, Sgt. Jean said, \u201ceven if you took away all the other reasons why an accident might have occurred, there were still 159 right-angle accidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese accidents are assuredly the most severe, because the force of the impact is on the passenger side of the vehicle, and causes the most severe injuries to the occupants,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Laval police hope that tests and preparation for the intersections involved in the pilot project will begin by the end of the Fall, with the photo radar entering operation by late 2013 or early 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that this tool will encourage drivers to respect traffic lights and reduce the number of accidents at these intersections,\u201d Sgt. Jean concluded, noting that the fines for photo radar infractions are identical to the citations issued by traffic patrol officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only difference is that since the driver isn\u2019t immediately identified, no demerit points are incurred,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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