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Maybe it's safer to run red lights than to wait for green lights.
This afternoon we pushed the button to activate the light on minor cross
street of a four lane road. The light changed, the traffic stopped, or so we thought, and we proceed across. About half way across, a Toyota Corolla blew through the red light at high speed, about 12 feet in front of me. If I had been two seconds or so faster it'd have been the end. So I was thinking that it really was much more dangerous to cross on the green, trusting that the cross traffic would stop, than to simply wait for a break in traffic and run the red light. This is a map of the location in Cupertino: "http://i34.tinypic.com/2n9etqs.jpg" and it's a heavily used crossing by high school students. I think the driver was focusing on the next traffic light, a few hundred feet south, though the left lane of southbound traffic stopped and you'd think she'd have wondered about why the traffic in the left lane wasn't moving. |
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