"Camera speed tickets are highly effective at reining in most drivers - 86 percent of vehicles that received between one and three violations in 2025 did not get more. Similarly for red light violators, over 95 percent of vehicles received just one or two violations. However, a fraction of vehicles - 14,707, less than 1 percent of all violators - received 16 or more speed camera violations last year."
"This is concerning because while cameras are extremely effective at identifying vehicles with scofflaw drivers that are most likely to kill, state law severely limits the penalties associated with automated enforcement. Fines are a minor $50 slap on the wrist and do not result in points. And state legislators specifically wrote into the law that insurers cannot set higher rates for vehicles with numerous camera violations, even though they are known to be a far greater liability."
Recidivist speeders, red light violators and unlicensed drivers are responsible for a large percentage of serious injuries and fatalities in New York City. Vehicles with 16 or more speed camera violations per year are twice as likely to be involved in a KSI, and those with 30 or more speeding violations are fifty times more likely. Drivers with more than three red light violations are five times more at risk of a KSI. Automated cameras identify scofflaw vehicles effectively, but state law limits penalties to a $50 fine without points and bars insurers from increasing rates for camera violations. NYPD-issued tickets carry points and insurance consequences but represent a much smaller share of enforcement against the most frequent camera violators, and a small subset of vehicles still accumulates many camera violations.
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