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Traffic congestion is a serious problem all over the world, especially during morning and evening rush hours in modern cities. Traffic volumes, roadwork, and weather events contribute to traffic congestion. More than 20 percent of it can be attributed to individual incidents such as traffic collisions. Even though most collisions in urban areas do not cause injuries to vehicle occupants due to low driving speeds, drivers have to stop their vehicles and wait for law enforcement to arrive and identify property damage liability, which unavoidably causes traffic congestion. Dense video surveillance systems can address this problem by capturing real-time videos from different viewpoints along roads and at intersections. Law enforcement can identify traffic accident liability through video recordings afterwards, which would allow drivers to drive away immediately following a collision and avoid causing traffic congestion.