When the Signal Light Turns Yellow - -
10-13-2017, 04:11 AM
#11
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Gaylord, MN
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When I come into a town or city, I turn off the radio or any other noise so that I can hear any emergency vehicles that may come and I consider the yellow light a warning light. Be cautious how you proceed. Be safe.
10-13-2017, 05:13 AM
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Wis
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Whenever I approach a light, I decide at what point I'll stop if it turns yellow. But, like you, I won't slam on the brakes if someone is close behind me. I actually got a ticket once for speeding up for a yellow light. I still speed up though if needed.
10-13-2017, 05:40 AM
#14
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Location: Horse Country, FL
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I will stop if I can and if no one is close behind me.
When stopped at a red and it turns green, I wait to make sure everyone whose light has just turned red is stopped before I go. Drives my husband nuts, but too many run the lights here.
When stopped at a red and it turns green, I wait to make sure everyone whose light has just turned red is stopped before I go. Drives my husband nuts, but too many run the lights here.
10-13-2017, 06:21 AM
#17
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
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Originally Posted by youngduncan
When we moved to the Houston area twelve years ago, one of the first "rules" of driving down here was that speed limits are suggestions and traffic signals are optional. This seems particularly relevant when the light turns yellow.
10-13-2017, 06:53 AM
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 682
My husband recently got a warning ticket for going thru on yellow when it turned red before he got thru the intersection. The policeman said it was the same as running a red light. Thankfully he did not issue a ticket, but now we stop on yellow.
10-13-2017, 07:31 AM
#20
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Location: Long Island
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I was a bus driver and it happened every year the first day of school, a driver would go thru the yellow, and it would turn red on the back half of the bus and get a ticket for the rear of the bus. this never happened to me thank goodness, but it happened every year like clock work. it was almost a contest to see who would get the ticket.
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