Driving to my son's baseball game yesterday afternoon around 3:45 with my wife. We were the first car stopped at red light needing to make a left. The light has a left turn arrow, but it doesn't come on when the light changes to green. I let out a sarcastic "c'mon man" (something my kids and I jokingly say all the time after an opposing team's baseball coach that used to say that on the field, but anyway) and rather that starting the turn we inch up a bit so that opposing traffic can pass through the intersection first.
A good 2 seconds or so after the light had already changed to green a car from my left completely blows through the intersection at probably 35-40 MPH. Never seen anybody run a red light THAT late before - maybe have seen somebody still passing through the intersection while the light is green, but never seen a green light with a clear intersection and then a car come out of nowhere to fly through. Not sure if the opposing car saw him coming as they have a more open view of traffic coming from that direction than I do because of the angle of the intersection, but fortunately they hesitated in going.
Had we gotten the green arrow I am 100% certain I'm getting T-boned on the driver's side. As my wife pointed out later, that intersection always has a green arrow and I'm fairly certain she's right. It's 202 South in Basking Ridge by the Olde Mill Inn and the on ramp to 287 is right there which is why a lot of cars turn left and there's always a green arrow when the light changes. We've also been going through that intersection for 15 years. And it's not like we rolled up to the intersection right before the light changed either, which could impact things if it's a camera sensor - were sitting there a while at the red light. Rather odd, but got very, very lucky.
A good 2 seconds or so after the light had already changed to green a car from my left completely blows through the intersection at probably 35-40 MPH. Never seen anybody run a red light THAT late before - maybe have seen somebody still passing through the intersection while the light is green, but never seen a green light with a clear intersection and then a car come out of nowhere to fly through. Not sure if the opposing car saw him coming as they have a more open view of traffic coming from that direction than I do because of the angle of the intersection, but fortunately they hesitated in going.
Had we gotten the green arrow I am 100% certain I'm getting T-boned on the driver's side. As my wife pointed out later, that intersection always has a green arrow and I'm fairly certain she's right. It's 202 South in Basking Ridge by the Olde Mill Inn and the on ramp to 287 is right there which is why a lot of cars turn left and there's always a green arrow when the light changes. We've also been going through that intersection for 15 years. And it's not like we rolled up to the intersection right before the light changed either, which could impact things if it's a camera sensor - were sitting there a while at the red light. Rather odd, but got very, very lucky.
