MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Police Department issued more than 10,000 citations last year based on infractions caught by traffic cameras at just four intersections, according to the department’s 2019 annual report.

Nearly half of those citations came from just one intersection, South Pioneer Way and East Hill Avenue, according to the report, with 4,737 citations combined from northbound and eastbound cameras. Those cameras were installed around two years ago, Police Chief Kevin Fuhr said in an interview, around the same time as cameras at North Stratford Road and Mart Road.

Data from past years for those newer sets of cameras was not immediately available.

The cameras at North Stratford Road and West Valley Road were the second most active in 2019, with 3,572 citations issued. The last time a traffic camera citation report was published, those same cameras led to 3,003 citations, according to the department’s 2017 annual report.

Among the four intersections, the fewest citations were issued for traffic violations at East Broadway Avenue and South Alder Street, with 277 citations issued, though there was only one camera at that intersection, which recorded eastbound traffic. In 2017, that camera led to 442 citations, according to the department.

A fifth set of traffic cameras, located in a school zone along South Pioneer Way, led to no infractions in 2019, according to the annual report, a marked decrease from the nearly 1,600 citations issued in 2017.

Accidents at the five intersections did not change significantly between 2017 and 2019, with one fewer accident in 2019 at the three intersections included in both reports.

“Some years accidents drop, some years they increase,” Fuhr said. “At Stratford and Valley, those cameras have been around for awhile, yet we continue to see accidents there.”