My story: There were two stoplights, the intersection was odd because the street on the left did not line up with the street on the right. So the lights were green and just as I got under the first one, they turned yellow. Before I got to the second light, it turned red. LESS than 3 seconds. I got the ticket in the mail, it was over four hundred dollars. I went back to the location, took pictures of one light being red while the other was still yellow. The police went by the video camera, my ticket was over four hundred dollars. I looked up the state law regarding fines, it was illegal to charge more than fifty dollars for running a red light. I was told the difference was for administrative costs and was ok'd by the legislature. (CA)