Hagerstown Police and the city are finalizing plans to add cameras at busy intersections around town to prevent drivers from running red lights.

Currently, there are no intersections in Hagerstown with red light cameras, but all that could change by this time next year.

Four cross roads will have citation issuing cameras by June 2017.

Three of the intersections have already been chosen: Dual Highway and Edgewood; Mulberry and Franklin; and Washington and Locust.

The last intersection will be determined later.

“[We picked the intersections based on] our accident reports and incidences within intersections,” said Heather Aleshire, Hagerstown Police Public Information Officer. “City engineering also worked hand-in-hand with us, and state roads had to be involved because it is all a collaborating effort to make sure that these are some of the busiest intersections that are having the most problems.”

The cameras will record live video of these intersections, and a full time officer with Hagerstown PD will watch the footage.

“Once implemented and put in place, there will be an officer that will review each violation that occurs and makes sure that the violation did occur before the citation is issued,” Aleshire said.

The department said this is not a money making venture, but truly the intent is to change behavior in the community.

“We don’t want to see success in a sense of money that we’re gaining,” Aleshire said. “We want to see success in reducing those things that are public safety issues.”

In fact, the intersections were chosen because these are hot spots for accidents and issues.

“[Our goals are to] reduce the amount of accidents and reduce the amount of pedestrians that are struck [in] busy intersections that have crosswalks where a lot of people are walking through,” Aleshire said.

If a driver is caught passing through an intersection during a red light, he/she will receive a $75 fine.

Officials said, if the cameras are successful in reducing accidents, they would explore adding more cameras at intersections in the future.