Law enforcement urging drivers to stop for red lights for Stop on Red Week

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ROANOKE COUNTY (WSLS 10) - The National Coalition for Safer Roads released a new report that detailed the most deadly intersections across the country.

According to the report, from 2004- to 2013 nearly 7,800 people died in red light accidents. Between 2004 and 2013, 11 people died in accidents at red lights in Roanoke, Martinsville, Danville and Lynchburg.

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Roanoke County police said they'll be out on the roads to make sue drivers are following the rules of the road. They said the number of accident fatalities has gone down, but they are still working on prevention.

Officer Paul Mcmillan has been with the Roanoke County Police Department for three years and said he sees many drivers on the road violating traffic laws.

Roanoke County Police said numbers of fatalities are generally lower in the Roanoke Valley because traffic lights have a delay before changing.

"So that if traffic coming into a red light, the traffic that would normally be released for green they'll have a little delay," Sergeant Tim Wyatt with Roanoke County Police said.

But drivers in the Roanoke County area said they have to be extremely cautious on the road.

"It seems like lately they try to go through the yellow light," motorist Ernest Wagner said of other drivers.

Wagner had been involved in an accident where a driver ran a red light and hit his vehicle.

"A guy didn't even have his license and he tried to beat the yellow light and he got me," Wagner said.

Stop on Red Week ends Saturday.