Ottawa man says he got a red light ticket for turning right
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Running a red light in Ottawa can cost you hundreds of dollars as one man found out, but when he took a closer look at the ticket, he was surprised by what he saw.
Running a red light in Ottawa can cost you hundreds of dollars as one man found out, but when he took a closer look at the ticket, he was surprised by what he saw.
"I was heading upstairs to go to my computer to pay it, it was actually my friend Matt who grabbed it and he’s like, 'let me see,'" said Ottawa resident Shane Link.
That’s when he read the fine print on the ticket he received in the mail from a red light camera at the intersection of Brittany Drive and Montreal Road.
It says when Link got to the intersection, the light had been red for 5.8 seconds.
It then says, he proceeded through the intersection when the light had been red for 7.6 seconds and hit Link with a $325 fine.
"It says that I stopped at the red light and then just drove through it, when you can clearly see in the picture that I turned right," said Link.
After some quick math and looking at photos of his vehicle, it appears he stopped at the light for 1.8 seconds before turning right.
