D.C. moves to eliminate shifting blame for camera tickets

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Get a ticket generated by one of the District’s speed and red-light cameras? If a D.C. Council committee gets its way, “Someone else was driving” won’t be an acceptable excuse anymore for motorists looking to transfer blame.Under existing District law, vehicle owners can submit the name, address and driver’s license number of who had “care, custody or control” of a vehicle ticketed automatically for an infraction, transferring liability to that person.

But that could soon change.

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