Running the red light

[Dont be a lemon]

I reckon I've run over 200 red lights in my time.

fooly syk

wanna hang oot at the maccas carpark?

 

[hufus]

I have developed a habit of ALWAYS making a quick check to the right before entering an intersection after the light turns green. Can pretty confidently say it's stopped me from getting in to a serious accident at least once.

If you can't stop safely for an amber, go through it - but don't speed up for it if you have a safe distance, it's the epitome of anti-social behaviour on our roads. You don't want to wait 40 seconds? Fair enough, I can see why you put your own and other's lives at risk.

 

[Simple Jack]

I must admit I'm a bit of an amber gambler but I usually make sure I get through before the orange turns to red. If there is no realistic chance of making it through before the light turns red I hit the brakes.

The amber or orange light is supposed to mean approach with caution but to most people it is a signal to gun it before it turns red.

Amber actually means you are legally required to stop unless doing so would cause an accident.

Stopping for a yellow traffic light or arrow
r. 57
(1) A driver approaching or at traffic lights showing a yellow traffic light must stop—
(a) if there is a stop line at or near the traffic lights and the driver can stop safely before reaching the stop line—as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the stop line; or
(b) if there is no stop line at or near the traffic lights and the driver can stop safely before reaching the traffic lights—as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the nearest or only traffic lights; or
(c) if the traffic lights are at an intersection and the driver cannot stop safely in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b), but can stop safely before entering the intersection—before entering the intersection—

If you speed up or just maintain speed and go through a yellow just before it turns red where you could have stopped, you can be fined.

 

[HurricaneHazza]

Theres a stupid red light I go through in the early morning every day, it's stuffed and goes off every five minutes even if nothing's in sight, also a pointless red light that's shouldn't be there because the road it comes off is for a warehouse.

is that the one on i think derrimut road? if you even live in Victoria? haha

 

[Juddy88]

A lot of those clips give the impression that the guy doing the recording is border-line ******ed...

"He was texting on the phone, literally."

Literally, as opposed to?

 

[Summer Nights]

Amber actually means you are legally required to stop unless doing so would cause an accident.

Stopping for a yellow traffic light or arrow
r. 57
(1) A driver approaching or at traffic lights showing a yellow traffic light must stop—
(a) if there is a stop line at or near the traffic lights and the driver can stop safely before reaching the stop line—as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the stop line; or
(b) if there is no stop line at or near the traffic lights and the driver can stop safely before reaching the traffic lights—as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the nearest or only traffic lights; or
(c) if the traffic lights are at an intersection and the driver cannot stop safely in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b), but can stop safely before entering the intersection—before entering the intersection—

If you speed up or just maintain speed and go through a yellow just before it turns red where you could have stopped, you can be fined.

Close but not quite. An accident doesn't need to be imminent. One only needs to argue that it's not safe to stop on amber, e.g. The stopping distance was not enough and stopping suddenly could hurt your neck or risk skidding or even that there a car following too closely.

 

[Tex_21]

Anyone else disappointed this thread wasn't about rooting women on the rag?

 

[Simple Jack]

Close but not quite. An accident doesn't need to be imminent. One only needs to argue that it's not safe to stop on amber, e.g. The stopping distance was not enough and stopping suddenly could hurt your neck or risk skidding or even that there a car following too closely.

Well 'car following too closely' equates to avoiding an accident but sure, argue any of the following.

Either way the law isn't 'yellow means go through but it'll be red soon' like many people believe.

 

[dales.girl38]

I saw a car going the wrong way around a roundabout on Monday, so nothing really surprises me anymore..

 

[Summer Nights]

Well 'car following too closely' equates to avoiding an accident but sure, argue any of the following.

Either way the law isn't 'yellow means go through but it'll be red soon' like many people believe.

True

 

[courtjester]

Thought thread title was some sort of slang for menstrual sex.....

 

[Dagless]

Got the quad earlier tonight! Two either way, two cars speeding up to get through in time, two for going through reds, two each direction.

(Saw this, wasn't involved obv...)

 

[radiojake]

A friend in Adelaide got booked by a cop for failing to stop at an amber light.. she never ran the red light and in court they never said she ran a red light, but just failed to stop at the amber

it was 1:30am - The pig clearly wanted to do something... apparently the pig only started working that week...


otherwise, when i was on my L plates years ago I accidently ran a red light... but i guess that is part and parcel of learning how to drive.. it scared the sh*t out of me once I realised what I had done -