They look like crash scenes from an action movie, except the damage is real and the on-camera drama plays out on roads across New Jersey:

A driver in Middlesex County slams the brakes and stops just inches from what appears to be the world’s calmest pedestrian.

A car goes through a red light in Hudson County and is T-boned.

A vehicle traveling at night in Gloucester County runs a red and gets clocked.

They are among 10 examples of New Jersey intersection crashes or near misses posted on YouTube (also available at http://videos.nj.com) by American Traffic Solutions, one of the nation’s leading providers of the red light camera systems that capture images of vehicles barreling through intersections.

Two of the incidents were from Union Township, two from Deptford, two from Linden and one each from East Brunswick, Monroe Township, Jersey City and Pohatcong.

"Each year more than 100,000 people are injured and hundreds are killed in red-light running related collisions," reads the script at the onset of the video. "The following videos are just a few examples of red-light running collisions and near misses from New Jersey intersections in 2011."

At the end of the 93-second video showing cars gone wild — among 81 videos from various U.S. states posted by ATS — the script reads: "Please, Stop on Red. The life you save may be your own."

ATS spokeswoman Kate Coulson said 11 people were killed in red-light running related collisions in New Jersey in 2009 and that the cameras "change driver behavior and help save lives."

But opponents of the cameras say the "Big Brother" systems are more a money grab for municipalities than a means to reducing accidents.

Steve Carrellas, New Jersey representative for the National Motorists Association driving-rights group, said of the ATS video: "Oh, so they’re showing how their red light system doesn’t stop crashes?"

"Only proper engineering, operation and maintenance of those intersections is going to prevent crashes," he said.

In 2008, New Jersey began a five-year pilot program, and 25 municipalities have since signed up for the red light camera systems.

Cameras have been in place for two years in Newark. New Jersey’s largest city brought in close to $3 million from more than 90,000 violators between December 2009 and December 2010, while reducing accident rates at some of its busiest intersections, officials said.

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