Do people run red light in your town??

[HAWKEYE10]

Every time I go out someone will run a red light.
Cars, pickup trucks, dump trucks, and tractor trailers.
Some times 3 at one time. A lot 2 at a time and
we won't even talk about 1 at a time. Is this just
Tenn. thing or country wide? DON

 

[Vegetaman]

It is starting to happen around here more frequently, too. I don't even hit the gas after my light turns green, I have to make sure nobody is blowing the light first...

 

[hangtree]

There are cameras here and sometimes on the news they show cars running the red lights well after they are red.
I always slow down if coming to the light and it just turns green for me, cause there may be someone running their 'yellow'/red light.

 

[gunsmith11]

Happens here all the time, but I still hate red light cameras. They are there strickly for a money grab, the ticket money goes to mostly the camera companies, and the ticket does not go on the record

 

[Jack Flash]

It happens all the time here too. Most drivers think that red lights are only a rough guideline. If you are behind a big truck that took a long time to turn, then it's only fair that you go through the light too, red or not. [/sarcasm off].

 

[Andy Griffith]

Sure.

If it's after midnight, and I've waited 30 seconds and it hasn't started to change yet and there are no cars in sight.

 

[Out West]

All the time! It makes my blood boil. So mad that yesterday when my light had turned green and cars were still turning left across my path I pulled in out in front of the third red light runner. The guy was screaming and shaking his fist at me. The attitude of these creeps is "Hooray for me and F everybody else". As much as I dislike the camera solution, at least these creeps would get what they deserve.

Out West

 

[tyusclan]

Yep, happens here all the time too. Drives me totally batty. I used to wonder why all the red light running till I started seeing the cops running them too. I don't mean in a chase with the lights and sirens, just cruisin' through and runs the reds just like everybody else.

I shouldn't let it bother me so much, but it really drives me nuts.

 

[Black_Sheep]

I see it happen on a daily basis, often long after the light turns red!

 

[willy]

My wife hates it when I'm going to make a left turn and I'm sitting in the intersection.
The light turns red and the last on comming car has to blow through!
So I always jerk the steering wheel hard left so they can see my wheels turn and think I'm pulling out in front of them.
Makes them WAKE UP ! real quick.

 

[OKFC05]

Saw an out-of-state semi blow right through a red light in town today.
Traffic cop sitting 1/4 block ahead nailed him.
Thanks for the donation.

 

[redlevel]

I can say without fear of contradiction that no one had ever ran a red light in my county up until nine years ago. That was when we got our first two, and those are all we have now. There have been some terrible accidents, several fatal, since then. Eighteen-wheelers blow through them at 65-75 mph regularly. I have seen them lock the wheels and raise enough smoke to choke a small family as they skidded through. Local people are almost educated now, realizing that they might have to stop at an intersection they haven't had to worry about for the previous 60 years.

 

[Jay5oh]

Minimum two vehicles after the light turns red here...

 

[J. Galt]

Its common here.....One of my bigger pet peeves.

 

[deadin]

Do people run red light in your town??

I can truthfully say that no one has ever run a red light in my town.

Might be because we don't have any traffic lights.

Now, do you want to talk about stop signs??

They're busy putting in a round-about at the main 4-way stop in the middle of town. I've been thinking about putting up bleachers and charging admission to watch the carnage after it opens.

 

[no dash]

That is one of my biggest pet peeves! Here in Chicago area, people run the red arrows in the turn lanes like crazy. Sometimes there could be up to 7-10 people run the light after it changes. It is annoying as hell!!!

 

[jkc]

It's a big problem in metro Phoenix (along with assorted other bad behavior) despite the increasing deployment of cameras. The collision rate is exacerbated by brain dead drivers who lurch into the intersection on the first blink of "green" without bothering to "look both ways" for red light runners. I believe it was Mike Dillon who said, "a green light is a permission, not a command."

 

[Spotteddog]

Don't know why they wouldn't!
Most seem perfectly OK staying motionless at green lights?

 

[burk940]

The biggest problem in my area is that people don't seem to understand what it means when the light turns yellow/orange. They think it means to speed up before it goes red, instead of slowing as the law requires. I always slow for the yellow/orange because I can't trust the drivers coming in other directions to do the same.

 

[jag312]

Red light runners scare the hell out of me. Why? Because my primary transportation is a motorcycle. One of those idiots hits me, and the best I can hope for is losing a leg. There are too many red light runners, and I see them every day.

One of my friends very carefully restored a 1959 Austin Healy Sprite. An illegal alien (no license, no insurance) ran a stop sign and hit my friend's car. My friend went to the hospital with a broken leg, and the Sprite was a total loss.

I would like to replace red light cameras with red light machineguns.

 

[Steave]

Have I blasted through a red light without stopping? Yes, in about 25 years of driving, it has happened maybe 3-5 times but I didn't see the light until I was already in the intersection. My fault, no excuse and thankfully no one was coming. It has scared the hell outta me every time.

Have I run through a light as it changes from yellow to red? Yep, more time than I can count and I don't feel at all bad about it.

Have I sat at a red light and eventually decide to disregard it? Yep, done that too, although not very often. There is one light near out house where I am on a side street entering a much busier street, the light take FOREVER to change, long enough that you wonder if it is broken. You can easily see both directions for several hundred yards, if I've been there awhile and it is safe, I will go through it.

As indicated, I've run them on accident and it has always freaked me out when it happened. I HATE people that simply disregard red lights.

 

[popgun]

Saw one tonight on the way home from work. The guy in a SUV in front of me T-boned some nut in a small sedan that just blew though the light. The sedan flew through the air and smashed into on comeing traffic.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Well you assume that red lights are mandatory-down here they're advisory only

 

[gunlovingirl]

And then we have the ones who stop at the red light, and still set there, talking on their cell phones while the light cycles through to red again. And of course we have the ones who don't realize you can turn left on a green light, even if the green left turn arrow isn't on yet.

 

[Herknav]

In the early 90's, a red light in Colorado Springs meant 3-5 more cars (on avg) could/would go. The last few times I've been through there, it didn't seem nearly as bad.

 

[sipowicz]

My wife hates it when I'm going to make a left turn and I'm sitting in the intersection.
The light turns red and the last on comming car has to blow through!
So I always jerk the steering wheel hard left so they can see my wheels turn and think I'm pulling out in front of them.
Makes them WAKE UP ! real quick.

I do the exact same thing...freaks them out.

 

[DeathGrip]

Sitting at an intersection waiting for the double left turn signal.the light changes and the van next to me didn't go right away so I sliped on out to make my turn and thats when it happened.Here comes the idiot at about sixty.I stop in time but freac him out enough to send him into the oncoming center curbing.Man did that car ever get messed up! Lucky he didn't hit the cars head on sitting maybe three feet away from the curb.
Two things I learned.
1. Don't pull out where you can't see.(The guy in the van didn't go for good reason.)
2. Don't think it's your job to try to teach idiots.Because someone else could get very hurt.

 

[HGWT]

We have a few red light camera in our town; at a major intersection just off the interstate the average day is 90 to 140 violations. after a 1 1/2 years people are starting to wise up!

 

[GLV]

Yes

And I am in a small town in North Central Indiana.

It is far worse in Indianapolis.

 

[montezumaz]

No red lights in our little community ... but people do run the stop signs on a regular basis. Defensive driving is a plus here.