so i was on my way to breakfast this morning and was stopped at a red light behind a canadian driving an f250. i see the guy in the f250 look side to side and then just go thru the red light, an escalade had to slam on his breaks to stop from hitting him. and then the guy in the f250 looks behind like y was that guy honking. i always thought canadians were bad drivers but come on r people in that much of a hurry that they r that stupid (no offense to canadians that r good drivers i just c more that r bad at it)

 

I hate sensored lights.

Most of them in my area have not been updated to handle the increased amount of traffic.

It wastes a lot of gas and peoples time.

There is this one light that I know for a fact that the underground weight sensor is broke because the only way to get the light to change to green for me is to roll the truck back and forth over it or wait for another car... but even then it somestimes doesn't work. After 5 minutes of waiting or fooling with the sensor, I'll just proceed carefully, especially if there is another car behind me. I even got out once and told the guy behind me to move back while I drove back and forth on it.. I got back out of the truck and told the guy behind me it must be totally broke. So we both went.

 

I had to run a red light on the way home from breakfast this morning. If I didn't I was going to mess my pants.

 

The ones they got here do it based on if there is a car is stopped before the light changes or it waits from 1 minute to 2 minutes. It only changes the light if a car is stopped at the light waiting. After that it divides it in half, to 30 seconds for the car to be stopped. Then the light turns green.

It's a cheap system that probably they got for nearly nothing... I can tell.

 

i go thru that light everday and theres nothing wrong with it the guy was there mayb a minute if that it changed about 30 seconds after. im not saying i havnt ran a light here or there but not on purpose. but he looked and there no way he didnt c that car before he started going

 

 

I think it's funny to see Americans waiting forever to make a right hand turn on a red light. You can do that in Canada unless (and seldom is) posted otherwise. I do it all the time in Michigan unless there is a sign. Never go through a red light straight unless it's a single flashing red and I stop and check both ways. There are stupid drivers everywhere, believe me who drives semi's and get people squeezing between me and the corner on my wide right turn, then they honk at me? Why, because you don't see my 5 blinking at night lights indicating a right turn? I see lots and got much more to see yet.

 

If he was from Ontario, he likely thought he could make a right turn on a red light, where ever it is that he did this, and if this is what he did. Either way, he should only have made that right turn when it was safe to do so. If he went straight through, the red light would have to be flashing before he took off again, but only after coming to a complete stop.

 

Don't try making a right on a red in Quebec

 

Unless it's posted otherwise, you can turn right on red in the States. In NC, you can turn left on red, if you are entering a oneway street. I'm pretty sure that's nationwide as well.


I think the OP means he ran the light. Straight thru.


In answer to the OP's original question... Yes, they really are that stupid, and worse. I see crazy stuff every day, as a truck driver, that would blow most people's minds.

 

yep he went straight thru didnt make a turn

 

I saw the title of this thread and thought, "No matter what the actual scenario is, yes... people are that stupid."

 

Hahaha! I love this thread! The *only* light in my town, in fact the whole county, is on a timer. And at night it goes to blink!

C'mon guys, tell me some more horror stories about traffic lights!

 

We use magnetic strips around here.
The timing of the light can be adjusted.
If it's a 'little used' intersection, the trip can be set to 'immediate change'.
If it's a 'high use' intersection, the trip will start a timer.

The left turn light into my neighborhood used to be immediate trip.
It was changed to a two minute delay.

There are a couple of things that people just don't know around here that irritate me.
The Green arrow will last up to one minute before turning yellow.
So, eight to ten cars can turn at the light.
However, when the light turns green, a another 3 second timer starts. If it isn't tripped repeatedly the light will turn yellow.
All you need is one car 'asleep at the wheel' and as little as one or two cars make the light, depending on where the idiot is in line.

There is 'immediate trip' intersection on my route to work.
No traffic is ever coming out.
However cars way up in front in front of me making a left there will 'cut the corner' running over the trip in the wrong direction and trip the light for no traffic.

 

Family favorite traffic light story.
When I was a kid my mother was driving and approached what had been for years a traffic circle. They changed it to a 'T' intersection.

Anyway, she negotiated her left turn and proceeded down the divided road.

The next thought that crossed her mind was,
somebody was going to be in big trouble because they hung all the traffic lights up backwards.

And they had hung all the signs backwards too.

"You're going the wrong way! You're going to kill somebody!"