Cameras At Stop Signs

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: 02:44

Should cameras catch people who run stop signs? Read the full description.

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There is presently a move afoot here in Maine to set up cameras that would take pictures of vehicles running stop lights or stop signs.

If you ask any of my closest friends and my closest relative why they do not like to ride with me, they will tell you it is because I stop at stop signs. I enjoy riding with them, because they wind her right through.

I admit it. I am an old fuddy-duddy. For the past 40 or so years --- since I taught driver education in Rockland and Waldoboro – I have stopped at stop signs.

This does not make me better or worse than anyone else, but I do it, even though there are situations where even a fool knows it would be safer to simply slow down, look, and go through.

Many times over the past 40 years --- 6 or 8 times --- I have been struck in the rear end when I stopped at a stop sign. You see, the people tailgating me expect me to run that stop sign like mo...
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