The promised dozen red light cameras have arrived at select locations throughout Durham to improve traffic safety and reduce fatalities on our roadways.
As the region gains more experience operating red-light cameras, additional sites may be added in the future, it said.
Red light running has the potential to cause serious injury or death for both the offending driver and innocent victims. In Durham’s Strategic Road Safety Action Plan, these cameras were identified as a priority safety countermeasure to reduce T-bone collisions at intersections, , according to a region statement.
The tegion’s collision records database shows 534 collisions over a three-and-a-half-year period at signalized intersections where the cause was specifically attributed to a driver disobeying traffic control indications. Many of these collisions resulted in significant injuries and sometimes death, it pointed out.
Durham Vision Zero is a multi-year, multi-agency strategy with the ultimate goal of eliminating all roadway deaths and serious injuries. As part of this goal, the Region of Durham has joined the numerous Ontario municipalities in using red light cameras to create safer roads.
Durham Region worked with a consultant to review data from all 623 signalized intersections across the region concentrating on intersections with a high volume of right-angle (T-bone) collisions. Based on that review, the following 12 locations were selected for the installation of red-light cameras:
- Ritson Road at Bond Street – Oshawa
- Lake Ridge Road at Goodwood Road – Scugog/Uxbridge
- Taunton Road at Lake Ridge Road – Whitby/Ajax
- Stevenson Road at King Street – Oshawa
- Simcoe Street at Conlin Road – Oshawa
- Simcoe Street at Rossland Road – Oshawa
- Taunton Road at Altona Road – Pickering
- Liverpool Road at Bayly Street – Pickering
- Salem Road at Bayly Street – Ajax
- Thickson Road at Dundas Street – Whitby
- Regional Highway 2 at Courtice Road – Clarington
- Westney Road at Delaney Drive/Magill Drive– Ajax
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