Wilmington has released new data about red light crashes and camera tickets in 2015 -- but traffic safety advocates say it's still not enough.
The report for last year is the first to go into detail about the types of crashes that occurred at the monitored red lights in the city.
"It's presenting data," says AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesman Jim Lardear. "But it's also how you've acted on that data to improve safety through other measures, not just automated enforcement."
He says the report highlights a 30 percent decrease in crashes near red lights from 2014 to 2015, but doesn't prove that the cameras are behind it.
"We're happy to see that city is listening to us, and starting to collect some data and report on this data. But what we're seeing is that the data is not really rich enough," he says. "The whole goal of collecting the crash data or the citation data is to find out where your trouble spots are, and then get out and safety of those intersections" -- which Lardear says there's no evidence is happening.
Plus, he says the city seems to over-cite for rolling stops at red lights -- something other municipalities are more lenient with.
Lardear notes this is the first year the city has dug into its red light data, so he expects future reports will do more to prove an impact.
