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You may be right.  My thinking was that a night camera, in order
to photograph the car along with the front plate and the
driver's face, would have to flash at the front of the car.  If
that's true, then flashes in the rear view mirror would be
catching someone moving through the intersection from the
opposite direction.  But if the camera is photographing the
rear of the car, then a flash in the rear view mirror would be
doing just as you said.

A year or so ago, someone posted that his daughter had been
nabbed while cutting classes, which is what made me believe
that the cameras were positioned so as to photograph the driver
as well as the license plate.  Not so?

In va.general John R Cambron <*cambronj@chesapeake.net*> wrote:

> NightSerf wrote:
> > 
> > In va.general Ken M. <poboxdc@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > natejax wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I was just driving it was dark and rainy out, I was one of a few cars
> > > > going through on a yellow, in my rearview mirror i saw 2 bright
> > > > flashes and was thinking i may be at risk for getting a ticket for the
> > > > red light camera, i had heard that these tickets do not carry points
> > > > in the state of VA, is that correct?  ive searched google and the web
> > > > and could not get a straight answer though it seems that this is the
> > > > case. please advise.
> > > >
> > > > thanks in advance.
> > 
> > > Get ready to pay a fine!
> > 
> > > (ken)
> > 
> > Not necesarily.  What Nate saw may have been flashes from a
> > camera catching some one going through from the opposite
> > direction.  If he was most of the way through before the light
> > turned red--he didn't mention seeing the red light--he was
> > probably not captured.

> If he saw flashes in his "rearview" mirror it is likely either he
> or some one behind him was caught. I have seen the same flashes
> after clearing the intersection when I entered intersection after
> the light turned yellow and other car entered the intersection
> during yellow and red.
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