Jumping Red Lights (an update)

1964johnr
1964johnr Posts: 179
edited September 2014 in Road general
It's a year since i posted about jumping a red light because i was going at speed and chose not to stop. At the time i was rightly lambasted by a number of people replying to me saying that there was never an excuse to jump a red light. I can happily say those replies had the desired affect. I haven't jumped a red light since and feel better for it.

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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Whilst we are telling people about laws we haven't broken recently, in the same time period I haven't killed a single person.
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  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Whilst we are telling people about laws we haven't broken recently, in the same time period I haven't killed a single person.

    Ah - but 1964Johnr was telling us of laws that he previously broke and now isn't ... are you telling us that you used to regularly kill people (but only if they were single?) ;)
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Slowbike wrote:
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Whilst we are telling people about laws we haven't broken recently, in the same time period I haven't killed a single person.

    Ah - but 1964Johnr was telling us of laws that he previously broke and now isn't ... are you telling us that you used to regularly kill people (but only if they were single?) ;)

    errrrrr..... no..... of course not
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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,933
    How many married people have you killed in that time?
  • jgsi
    jgsi Posts: 5,062
    As I walk home fairly regularly now from work.. I can confirm that on the 3 sets of lights I pass, guaranteed a vehicle RlJer each and every time... this is of course in a town where enforcement cameras too expensive to deploy in contrast to London?
    Didnt realise how rife it is for car drivers to ignore red.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    monkimark wrote:
    How many married people have you killed in that time?

    that depends do they count as 2 or 1?
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  • gozzy
    gozzy Posts: 640
    JGSI wrote:
    Didnt realise how rife it is for car drivers to ignore red.

    Cars constantly run red lights these days, it's ridiculous. They're not the only ones, vans, trucks, buses as well as some of those cyclists. I used to drive delivery vans until recently and drivers these days are absolutely awful for pushing how long lights can have gone red for.
    Amber gambler used to be the road safety phrase when I was growing up. Unfortunately, red gambler doesn't have the quite same ring to it.
  • diy
    diy Posts: 6,473
    Its always intrigued me why lights go from green to red in the same amount of time in a 30 zone as a 70 zone. even though in most cases according to the highway code you cant actually stop in time at much above 50mph.
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  • DavidJB
    DavidJB Posts: 2,019
    diy wrote:
    Its always intrigued me why lights go from green to red in the same amount of time in a 30 zone as a 70 zone. even though in most cases according to the highway code you cant actually stop in time at much above 50mph.

    Never seen a red light in a '70 zone' I.E Motorway or Duel Carriageway.
  • diy
    diy Posts: 6,473
    Just for you :
    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.39360 ... Is7Xhg!2e0

    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.39485 ... p5M9tw!2e0

    Complete with traffic light camera for those who are not quick on the brakes
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  • DavidJB
    DavidJB Posts: 2,019
    Well there you go!...Hmm actually have been down that road :)
  • Walls82
    Walls82 Posts: 126
    Well done for changing your light jumping ways!

    A few years back I saw a guy jump a light who obviously didn't stop because he was going too fast,and partly showing off in front of his GF, smashed into a lady who had just started to cross road breaking her leg(it made the Richmond Times), how her husband who was with her didn't lump the cyclist I don't know - I felt like doing it myself!

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