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"MrKablooey©" <kablooey@kablooey.com> wrote:

>Regardless of whether or not the guy moved "at the right moment", the fault
>would rest on the 19 cars behind him.
>
>Walt Horning wrote:
>>Fortunately everyone was alert and all stopped in time. But it was the
>>classic situation where the light turned green and the guy up front
>>must have been asleep at the wheel. So everyone anticipated movement
>>and when it didn't happen, about 10 cars all had to stop suddenly.
>>
>>There was not much excuse for this. The driver did eventually move, so
>>it was not a broke down car. Also, if it was a stick shift and it
>>stalled, then it was driver error. And if it was mechanical difficulty
>>that caused a stall, the driver should have kept car maintained.

So what - I've had stick shift cars where they would not always go into
gear and I would have to struggle for a bit. So a driver made an error.
There is no excuse for 10 cars to anticipate that much.

At least once, in 1992, I did go through a light promptly and got
T-boned in the driver's door and broke 4 ribs and totaled my car because
a boy ran a red light, even after everyone else who had the red had
stopped.  

I, myself have run a red light when the road was slick and I couldn't
stop in time after a fast yellow.  I almost hit someone - although
fortunately he stopped before he went into the intersection.   This was
at least 3 years ago.

Another time (also at a red with a short yellow in about 1978) I put on
the brakes and the horse trailer I was pulling started to jackknife.
The person stopped at the light saw my predicament and went through the
red.  I didn't hit anything, altho I bent up the trailer and the bumper
of the truck.

These experiences have made me less anxious to charge right through the
light the instant it has turned green.  

>>The only excuse for not moving would have been mechanical failure of
>>the sudden kind where maintenance does little or nothing to help.

It must be nice to be perfect.  Why are you still slumming down here
among the peasants?

grandma Rosalie