Barbara Orban makes an unlikely campaigner against red-light cameras. A professor of public health at the University of South Florida in Tampa, she spent much of her career researching improvements in emergency medicine. Then, shortly before her eldest son’s high school graduation in 2003, his car was struck by a driver running a stop light. The impact caused his vehicle to roll over, shattering its windows and buckling the roof. He sustained a major concussion that disrupted his education for the next four years.
Orban’s son was lucky. Around 800 people lose their lives each year in the United States as a result of drivers running red lights; those drivers also injure over 150,000 motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians....
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