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What or how do they teach young drivers in re-guard to yellow lights? If you can stop, you should. If you can not get stopped, then continue through the intersection, right?
My girl friends daughter thinks it means hurry up an go. The car in front of increased their speed and so she thought she could make it to. The driver in front of her changed their mind and decided to stop. She now will get $200 less than she owes on her vehicle and of course need to get a different one without any money to finance the purchase with.
Oh well, each of us lives the life we have chosen for ourselves.
 
My drivers ed teacher said never assume the driver ahead will go through. When none ahead, the rule was "without changing speed", if you will be in the intersection on yellow, keep going. once the decision is made, do it. Jim
 
Here I central Va the rules are different:
Yellow = speed up, its going to turn red
Red = 3 more cars because cross traffic isn't that quick
Green = keep texting and reading email until someone further back hits the horn to let you know its no longer red
 
This year there was an accident here because someone went
through on a yellow light. The person/vehicle they hit, had made
a right on the opposing red light and was hit on the driver's side.
The ticket went to the person who went through the yellow.
I'm waiting to see the law suits play out.
Thankfully, no one was seriously injured.
 
I guess the young girl got educated about what a yellow light means.

From the link below:

Green = go. Red = stop. Yellow does not equal ?gun it?!

Many drivers see a yellow light and start driving like they stole something. Don?t do that. Remember, if you?re crossing into an intersection and the light becomes red, you?re breaking the law. You?re also creating a dangerous situation for cross traffic.

When teaching your teenager how to safely negotiate an intersection controlled by a traffic signal, consider the speed at which you are traveling as well as the distance between your car and the intersection. If you?re following other cars, it?s a good idea to use cover braking in case the traffic light turns yellow and you need to stop.
Yellow traffic light
 
(quoted from post at 20:49:32 11/09/17) Here in Indiana a yellow light means step on the gas.
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Here in Manitoba a turn signal means "want to race- I'm game' and the guy behind you stands on the loud lever.
 
(quoted from post at 18:10:50 11/09/17) What or how do they teach young drivers in re-guard to yellow lights? If you can stop, you should. If you can not get stopped, then continue through the intersection, right?
My girl friends daughter thinks it means hurry up an go. The car in front of increased their speed and so she thought she could make it to. The driver in front of her changed their mind and decided to stop. She now will get $200 less than she owes on her vehicle and of course need to get a different one without any money to finance the purchase with.
Oh well, each of us lives the life we have chosen for ourselves.
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It all depends, if you are going to the dentist you stop, if you are going to look at a tractor you run it :D
 


SDE, I don't think that "If you can stop, you should. If you can not get stopped" has anything to do with it. When you are approaching a working light you are supposed to have your speed down low enough so that you can easily stop in plenty of time if you see the green turn to yellow. You are supposed to ALWAYS be able to stop.
 
When I was a new driver I always had trouble judging yellows. Friend of my dad was a former cab driver. He told me their rule was never approach an intersection under power. It worked.
 
The driver making the right on red must yield to all oncoming traffic. My daughter in law was involved in just such an accident. Ticket went to the right on red driver for not yielding. gobble
 
State laws can vary. In Idaho, you may not enter an intersection on red. If the light turns red while you are in it, the cross traffic must wait for the intersection to clear.
 
I grew up with the rule that if it turns yellow, stop. First time I drove in Seattle, I did that and 3 cars in the lane beside me went through the yellow, and the guy behind me laid on his horn. Nowadays, most everybody speeds up to make it through a yellow everywhere. Except the young women, who are anxious to stop so they can answer the texts they got since the last light.
 
With morality on the decline in this country it's already the wild west when it comes to driving. Very soon it will be all out war. I see someone at least once a month run a red light.
 
"The driver making the right on red must yield to all oncoming traffic."

That's what I thought too Tom, but according to the news story, they ticketed the
driver who went through the yellow instead of the one who made the right on red.
 
I see a lot of yellow lights ! Depends on the traffic and my mood. Sometimes I gun it ( though a little 4 cyl. LOL )and many times I am able to get stopped.
I see VERY FEW green lights. Red lights like me. I ride with people the green lights seem to stay green forever and just wait for them to go through. But not me ! Green lights don't like me they switch when I'm coming.

Anyone here ever run a red light because you are looking at the traffic extra hard concentration and sort of forget all about the traffic light. I have before and right after it happened I sure felt sick and lucky all at about the same time.
 
We have a few red light cameras here in CB, Iowa. Don't know if it really helps the problem or not. Go through a red on one of those intersections and it'll cost you $200.
 
No, but I went through a red light from a dead stop once in Savannah, Georgia. A gang fight started up on the sidewalk next to my car. I departed the scene regardless of the color of the traffic light.
 
(quoted from post at 06:12:12 11/10/17) I see a lot of yellow lights ! Depends on the traffic and my mood. Sometimes I gun it ( though a little 4 cyl. LOL )and many times I am able to get stopped.
I see VERY FEW green lights. Red lights like me. I ride with people the green lights seem to stay green forever and just wait for them to go through. But not me ! Green lights don't like me they switch when I'm coming.

Anyone here ever run a red light because you are looking at the traffic extra hard concentration and sort of forget all about the traffic light. I have before and right after it happened I sure felt sick and lucky all at about the same time.
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Never fails, when I am early for an appointment I hit all the green lights, when I am running a little behind I hit all the reds...why is that??
 
I have learned to watch the cross walk signal. It will start counting down ten seconds before the light changes from green to yellow.
 
Forty years ago in driver's ed, we were taught that you did not enter the intersection after the light turned yellow -- the yellow light was to allow vehicles waiting to make a left-hand turn a chance to complete their turn and clear the intersection before the light turned red. Hopelessly antiquated, I know :)
 
I've noticed here in Omaha Ne. people treat red lights like they're stop signs, stop look both ways and go, we have 3'x4' signs that say no turn on red doesn't work electronic signs don't work either. The biggest problem is that it's not just general people it's police officers also. I work in traffic control for the city so I get to see a lot. Believe me when you're up in a bucket truck working on signal lights it can be quite scarey !! when you have to put an intersection in flash where the whole intersection flashes yellow look out , folks don't understand that you're supposed to treat an intersection in flash like a four way stop. So the city engineers answers for traffic problems is to install more signs. Oh and makes the signs larger that'll work !!!
 
Reminds me of a TV show just a few years ago. . . Just shy of the 4 min mark.
If your following someone, expect them to plant the brakes. Hopefully they are not running ABS and you are. If you don't havbe ABS, figure talking to the insurance man at least. Maybe the cops also. Then again, the cops could be nice and just mail you a ticket, "Following too close" at the least. After all, if you can afford insurance, you can afford to pay twice for your mistook.
If you can't, then you get another ticket for "No insurance", "No license", "Driving while Suspended", The list just goes on and on. . .
Hit the link and enjoy.
I remember my uninsured younger days, smacking a Porche 924(?) Then I went to Panama with a revoked license. Didn't need it then.
I got back to the states and carried SR-22 insurance for about a year.
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You are Correct . While riding with My Sara's Youngest daughter ,,.. we came to a bad T intersection with bad visibility because of line of bushes and a hill ,.she did STOP,before starting to pull out on to busy hiway 11 . but She Could Not See any traffic,. and we were going in harms way ,.my rite foot slammed my imaginary brake and hollered WHOA! ,.. lets make sure it s clear..,. She SAID , Well I Stopped ,,. Yes , You Did ,, But Lets Make sure YOU can see Because , You can get killed Here !
 
Mean, here in Mo. they are mostly gone. Larger areas like St. Louis city, County, and St. Charles County, have already done away with them. I think the argument against, was "no arresting officer present" at court. All I had to do was show up at "night court" to get one dismissed. (By pointing out that St. Charles Co. had already removed all theirs) Some small areas desperate for revenue (like Hannibal) still have them.
 
I hit a yellow light the other day with a tractor on the trailer. It was a judgment call since there was a state cop right behind me. I gunned it and shot on through. I looked up in my mirror when I was just getting past it. The light was red,but guess who shot right though it behind me? It wasn't to pull me over either.
 
I have gotten 2 tickets in my life, 83 been driving legally since 14. One of my tickets was for going through a yellow light. That is what was stated on the ticket, was 1954. the other ticket was in Las Angeles at a cross walk. The real reason was because I had New Mexico license plates.
 
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