PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — For the past nine months, red light cameras in Pensacola have been capturing images of cars driving through red lights. Four cameras on 9th Avenue and a fifth camera on Davis Highway have recorded 26,085 violations since February.
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“We have officers looking at these- at the video to make sure, and if they’re very close, then we’re not going to send a citation out, but we’re sending them out when it’s a blatant disregard for that light,” Pensacola Police Public Information Officer Mike Wood said.
Out of the 26,085 citations, 30% of violations came from 9th Avenue and Gregory Street, with 8,274 violations recorded. As for the four other intersections, 9th Avenue and Bayou Boulevard saw 7,777; 9th Avenue and Airport Boulevard saw 3,616; 9th Avenue and Fairfield Drive saw 4.969; and Fairfield Drive and Davis Highway saw 1,449.
Officer Wood said drivers need to start paying better attention…