Call me overly cautious, but when I'm stopped at an intersection like that I always look both ways before it's my turn to proceed. And after a gal got killed by an out of control cement mixer while waiting for a light change at an intersection near my home I look both ways before the light even changes.
I've found when driving it's safest to assume everybody else on the road is out to kill you. Because in a way they are.
After I moved to Chicagoland in 1990 I quickly noticed that people ran red lights as a habit. Every time one to three cars would zip thru after the light. I learned to wait & watch.. Timing the lights so it was red in both directions for 3 or 4 seconds would have helped I think.
USDOT study after advent of delayed light change determined drivers who went through the intersection 5 seconds after the light went red were likely to cause accidents. Our tax dollars at work to determine a "No shit" finding.
August 18, 2020 about 3pm. Eugene Oregon. Prairie Road at Highway 99 has a railroad crossing. After the train cleared the intersection and after the traffic signal turned 'green' for me to go and after the arms raised, something told me to wait despite the honking drivers behind me. One driver started to go around me by crossing the double-yellow line into the on-coming lane.
A second train rolled through without activating the arms or the traffic signal. The cow-catcher cleared the accelerating vehicle bumper by <five-feet.
That intersection is next to the major petroleum tank-farm feeding several counties along Interstate 5 and the coast.
Call me overly cautious, but when I'm stopped at an intersection like that I always look both ways before it's my turn to proceed.
ReplyDeleteAnd after a gal got killed by an out of control cement mixer while waiting for a light change at an intersection near my home I look both ways before the light even changes.
I've found when driving it's safest to assume everybody else on the road is out to kill you. Because in a way they are.
Always been my attitude on the road that everyone else is a goddamn moron whose only goal is to kill me.
DeleteAcute peripheral vision, good reflexes, waiting for 3 seconds to go despite the horns blaring required.
ReplyDeleteSamoore, you aren't far wrong with that approach.
ReplyDeleteAfter I moved to Chicagoland in 1990 I quickly noticed that people ran red lights as a habit. Every time one to three cars would zip thru after the light. I learned to wait & watch..
ReplyDeleteTiming the lights so it was red in both directions for 3 or 4 seconds would have helped I think.
I read a few years ago that they do just that in NYFC. So, drivers continue through a light for *4 or 5* seconds after it turns red.
DeleteUSDOT study after advent of delayed light change determined drivers who went through the intersection 5 seconds after the light went red were likely to cause accidents. Our tax dollars at work to determine a "No shit" finding.
ReplyDeleteAnd Speed Racer missed the Tesla completely, ans centre-punched the work truck. There really is no justice inn the Universe
ReplyDeleteAugust 18, 2020 about 3pm.
ReplyDeleteEugene Oregon.
Prairie Road at Highway 99 has a railroad crossing.
After the train cleared the intersection and after the traffic signal turned 'green' for me to go and after the arms raised, something told me to wait despite the honking drivers behind me.
One driver started to go around me by crossing the double-yellow line into the on-coming lane.
A second train rolled through without activating the arms or the traffic signal.
The cow-catcher cleared the accelerating vehicle bumper by <five-feet.
That intersection is next to the major petroleum tank-farm feeding several counties along Interstate 5 and the coast.
Tesla collision avoidance works...
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