American Traffic Solutions is having a rough start to 2016. Multiple bills filed across the country in states like Arizona, Illinois and Maryland would ban their red light camera systems. In Florida, a damning study by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is showing big increases in accidents in red light camera intersections, across the board. [link]

For that reason and the Yellow Light Shaving scandal that broke in 2013, a red light camera ban has also been filed in Florida.

If ATS was looking for any good news in this report, they’re not going to find it. Here are some of the low-lights for red light camera intersections:

• 30% increase in collisions resulting in a serious injury
  
• 15% overall increase in accidents
• 50% increase in accidents in Tampa
• 47% increase in accidents in Tallahassee
• 20% increase in accidents in Miami
• 71% increase in accidents in Orlando
• 114% increase in accidents in Palm Beach County
• 0% improvement in right angle crashes 

[Above: An accident occurring in a FL intersection with red light cams]

As American Traffic Solutions and their lobbyists attempt to defend themselves during legislative committee hearings, they bring up safety statistics and the fact that they are NOT Redflex. Redflex may have had convicted white collar criminals running their corporate and Chicago operations, but ATS has certainly been losing court battles over the last year.

According to several courts in Missouri, ATS was operating outside the law to the tune of millions in fines over the course of a decade.