New York City to use traffic cameras to enforce speed limit

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Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- As part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to reduce pedestrian deaths, New York City will start issuing speeding tickets to drivers clocked by traffic cameras.

Previously, only warnings were given out. That changes Thursday.

The mayor calls his plan Vision Zero, with the goal of reducing traffic fatalities to zero within the next decade.

He made the announcement at a public school in Queens, across the street from where an 8-year-old was struck and killed on Northern Boulevard last month. A 51-year-old unlicensed truck driver was arrested in the incident and charged with violation of safety rules. A makeshift memorial remains at the scene.

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