STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Speed cameras are meant to act as deterrents for unsafe driving, but it appears some drivers aren’t getting the message.
During a visit to some of the most active speed camera sites on Staten Island this week, the Advance/SILive.com — armed with a radar gun — clocked one car going 62 MPH on Hylan Boulevard toward Bay Terrace in Great Kills. The speed limit on Hylan, the borough’s major thoroughfare infamous for bad driver behavior, vehicle crashes, and car collisions with pedestrians and cyclists, is 30 MPH.
While the car going 62 MPH was in the vicinity of the speed camera located at the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and Ainsworth Avenue, the driver escaped a ticket…