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Originally Posted by sebberry
This is what happens to people who make simple errors in pro-enforcement nanny state regimes.
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Did anyone ask for your opinion? No? Didn't think so. Kindly fuck off now (sorry mods). As usual, you completely ignore the point in order to inject your socialist drivel.
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Originally Posted by jlenko
I saw that same scenario yesterday... but it didn't end too well. I was sitting at a red light on the SFPR project road, when a semi blew the very stale yellow (turned red as he entered the intersection) on the intersecting road. Old Yale Road, I believe it is. Anyway, there was a car so close behind the semi, no way he could see the light.. he just followed the semi through the now-red light.
Well.. as luck would have it.. a driver coming the opposite direction to me.. saw the light green and kept coming at full speed (I'd say, around 60 km/h) when he broadsided the now-red-light-running Honda Civic. Guy didn't look too good. All that, because he was following too closely.
And yes, I did stay as a witness. I may be an e-thugging asshole, but not enough to leave the scene.
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Actually, in my case, it's clear I was a good couple car lengths behind the semi... and entering the intersection barely a second after the light changed. Keep in mind that the lights in Edmonton are all mounted horizontally, so the yellow and red don't stick up higher than the green... from the look of it, it probably just turned yellow as the semi started to block the light... and given that it's actually a city street and we were probably doing 60 *max*, that's lots of time for the light to turn red before the truck had even cleared the intersection.
I don't know how ICBC would call your story above, but it sounds to me like a split fault - yeah, the Civic blew the red, but the other guy has a responsibility to ensure the intersection is clear before blowing into it, too...