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another item to address, would be running an Orange changing to Red lights.....Every hour, every day across the U.S. there are constantly drivers trying to run an orange light from even quite some distance back. A week ago, I got the left turn light, started to pull forward and a car at race car speed shot thru the intersection.........It is bad enough to get in a T-bone accident to the driver's side, often resulting in death, but at increased speeds, it is more likely to produce a fatality.......

Anyways, I was driving with a friend from Denmark when we saw an Orange Light runner. He said, you know when you are driving along, and the light turns orange, and you immediately try to judge whether you can make it or not instead of just stopping? Sometimes you brake, sometimes you go ahead and go for it. He says that there was such a problem in Denmark, with the people "going for it" and getting in serious accidents, that they changed their traffic signals. On a green traffic light, ten seconds before the light is going to turn orange, the green starts flashing displaying that it is a stale green light, and to begin stopping. He says there are still people that "go for it", but most people use the flashing green as a warning and stop.... He also said that the length of the yellow light is determined by the number of lanes in the cross street. Two lanes is six seconds, a six lane street will have a 12 second yellow light.

Simple change to save accidents and lives.......

If someone knew the traffic laws at one time, doesn't matter if they have forgotten them as soon as they took the test.....
The studies have indicated that 20% of the drivers are either driving without a license or driving with a suspended license anyways.
In either case, they are driving without insurance, so the rest of us have to purchase "un-insured" driver insurance. With insurance getting prohibitive in cost, many drivers go with the absolute minimum (ludicrously low) insurance. I recently bought "under-insured" insurance at an additional add on expense........
The interesting thing is that cops seemingly can't be bothered to look for traffic law offenders anymore....We need to respond to serious crimes, not petty traffic offenses. And the cops seem to all believe that is the truth. I cannot remember, and I have been watching for over a year, a single motorist pulled over for a ticket. The State Patrol seems to do a much better job.
The motorists have figured out that they don't need to worry about being pulled over for making an illegal left turn, speeding, etc....
That's my rant about traffic problems......thank you for your extremely comprehensive article......