You know how they work. Even if a cop doesn’t see you zip through that red light, you can still get a ticket.
But what if that red light camera causes you to get a ticket for something you didn’t do? One San Antonio man says he couldn’t get anyone to listen to his innocent plea, so he called Barry Davis and Eyewitness Wants To Know.
Douglas Bond said, "At first I thought...what was I doing in Houston?"
He wasn’t in Houston, but he was surprised to find a ticket in the mail from a red light camera…in the neighboring city.
Bond says when he looked closely at the picture, he saw right away it wasn’t his truck .
"He has a bowtie and I don't have a bowtie. The Silverado is lettered differently. And he has a ball hitch on his trailer and I have a receiver hitch below mine,” Bond said.
He called the Houston Police Department (HPD) and tried to explain the mix-up.
"They said uh...you just need to pay the fine,” Bond said.
After going back and forth with the HPD they told him to take pictures of his truck and send them in.
Bond said, "So I went and bought a camera, took pictures of the back of my truck, circled the clear differences, put my notice number on there and sent it to them. [I] called them a week later and they didn't know what I was talking about."
They also warned him he wouldn’t be able to renew his driver’s license if he neglected to pay the fine. His license expires next month, so he called us.
We called the HPD and the company that runs the red light cameras, American Traffic Solutions.
They both called back and said the ticket had been dismissed last July. HPD also apologized to Bond for the miscommunication.
