Driving through the traffic light that just turned yellow

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your rear tires need to enter the intersection before it turns red.

If I'm in DC or MD and there's a chance of a red light ticket, I brake hard and hope no one is behind me.

Your rear tires need to LEAVE the intersection before it turns red.

No, you are stopping too soon. If the light is yellow when you enter the intersection, that's fine. If you stop too sign, you run the risk of getting hit from behind by someone who is not expecting you to stop.

Wrong. You need to have exited the intersection by the time the light turns red. If you are in the intersection and the light is red you have just run a red light.

Stop tailgating!

Varies by jurisdiction. In VA, DC and MD, if you enter the intersection when the light is yellow, then you clear the intersection and it's fine. It's not running a red light.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/traffic/article25886749.html

From the Va DMV Drivers Maual - If you have not entered the intersection, stop.

See Md above.

The News Tribune as a citation? You are kidding right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your rear tires need to enter the intersection before it turns red.

If I'm in DC or MD and there's a chance of a red light ticket, I brake hard and hope no one is behind me.

Your rear tires need to LEAVE the intersection before it turns red.

No, you are stopping too soon. If the light is yellow when you enter the intersection, that's fine. If you stop too sign, you run the risk of getting hit from behind by someone who is not expecting you to stop.

Wrong. You need to have exited the intersection by the time the light turns red. If you are in the intersection and the light is red you have just run a red light.

Stop tailgating!

Varies by jurisdiction. In VA, DC and MD, if you enter the intersection when the light is yellow, then you clear the intersection and it's fine. It's not running a red light.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/traffic/article25886749.html

From the Va DMV Drivers Maual - If you have not entered the intersection, stop.

See Md above.

The News Tribune as a citation? You are kidding right?

Did you read the link? It describes the difference between a permissive and restrictive yellow light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your rear tires need to enter the intersection before it turns red.

If I'm in DC or MD and there's a chance of a red light ticket, I brake hard and hope no one is behind me.

Your rear tires need to LEAVE the intersection before it turns red.

No, you are stopping too soon. If the light is yellow when you enter the intersection, that's fine. If you stop too sign, you run the risk of getting hit from behind by someone who is not expecting you to stop.

Wrong. You need to have exited the intersection by the time the light turns red. If you are in the intersection and the light is red you have just run a red light.

Stop tailgating!

Varies by jurisdiction. In VA, DC and MD, if you enter the intersection when the light is yellow, then you clear the intersection and it's fine. It's not running a red light.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/traffic/article25886749.html

From the Va DMV Drivers Maual - If you have not entered the intersection, stop.

See Md above.

The News Tribune as a citation? You are kidding right?

Did you read the link? It describes the difference between a permissive and restrictive yellow light.

Again. A newspaper? As a citation for a law or regulation?

But your honor! I read it on the Internet!

[Anonymous]

OP- Just use common sense.

If you can apply the brake in a reasonable manner and stop in time, then stop.. If you need to slam the brakes on then keep going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your rear tires need to enter the intersection before it turns red.

If I'm in DC or MD and there's a chance of a red light ticket, I brake hard and hope no one is behind me.

Your rear tires need to LEAVE the intersection before it turns red.

No, you are stopping too soon. If the light is yellow when you enter the intersection, that's fine. If you stop too sign, you run the risk of getting hit from behind by someone who is not expecting you to stop.

Not in Maryland. From the MD Driver's Manual
http://www.mva.maryland.gov/_resources/docs/DL-002.pdf

Maryland Driver's Manual wrote:
2. Steady Yellow Signal
This means that the signal is changing from green to red. Its purpose is to provide time for approaching traffic to stop safely and to clear other vehicles from the intersection before the signal turns red. If you are too close to the intersection to stop safely, continue through the intersection with care.

So you need to be out of the intersection when the light turns red, not just entering. Just because many drivers fudge the yellow and run the red, does not make it right and you should definitely not be suggesting that someone else take up this bad driving habit.

You may know how to underline, but you don't know how to read. The very next sentence says if you are too close to stop safely, continue through the intersection with care. You do not have to clear before it turns red. I can legally take in an intersection trying to make a left turn for example, and I may not have a clear opportunity until the light changes. I am allowed to complete my turn at that point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your rear tires need to enter the intersection before it turns red.

If I'm in DC or MD and there's a chance of a red light ticket, I brake hard and hope no one is behind me.

Your rear tires need to LEAVE the intersection before it turns red.

No, you are stopping too soon. If the light is yellow when you enter the intersection, that's fine. If you stop too sign, you run the risk of getting hit from behind by someone who is not expecting you to stop.

Wrong. You need to have exited the intersection by the time the light turns red. If you are in the intersection and the light is red you have just run a red light.

Stop tailgating!

Not in MD.

[Anonymous]

Some yellows seem long and some seem short. If you have time to stop, stop. If you don't, keep going. It also depends on your speed. If you are going slowly, you can stop in time. If you are speeding along, you have to press the pedal to the medal because it takes a longer distance to come to a stop unless you really slam on the brakes which is not a good idea at a high speed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your rear tires need to enter the intersection before it turns red.

If I'm in DC or MD and there's a chance of a red light ticket, I brake hard and hope no one is behind me.

Your rear tires need to LEAVE the intersection before it turns red.

No, you are stopping too soon. If the light is yellow when you enter the intersection, that's fine. If you stop too sign, you run the risk of getting hit from behind by someone who is not expecting you to stop.

Wrong. You need to have exited the intersection by the time the light turns red. If you are in the intersection and the light is red you have just run a red light.

Stop tailgating!

Not in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

This is kind of off-topic, and we are headed out of the winter season, but when it's snowy/bad roads, please just proceed through the intersection at a yellow light unless you have lots of stopping room. I've seen way too many people see a yellow light, hit the breaks too hard in order to stop before the intersection, and then skid/spin out. At a yellow light, it is much, much better to perhaps not get out of the intersection before the light turns red than try to stop with little distance/too hard of a break for the conditions and get in an accident or skid.

[Anonymous]

In Denver everyone goes until it turns red, then a couple more go.

[Anonymous]

Every single time I think I've cut it too short on a yellow light there is one, sometimes two cars following me through.

[Anonymous]

It all depends on the circumstances involved or the actual intersection involved.

If someone is late for work then they are most likely to accelerate on a yellow vs. tapping their brakes when they enter an intersection on a yellow light.

If the intersection is super busy...Say by having two popular traveled routes converge, then most people will stop at a yellow vs. speed up since they know that when the other light turns green, the cars will immediately forge ahead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your rear tires need to enter the intersection before it turns red.

If I'm in DC or MD and there's a chance of a red light ticket, I brake hard and hope no one is behind me.

Your rear tires need to LEAVE the intersection before it turns red.

+ 1

[Anonymous]

There is a related courtesy issue that some people follow and others don't. If you are approaching an intersection as the light turns yellow, and you see a car stuck in the intersection trying to turn left, the safe and polite thing to do is to slow down, and allow the driver to turn left. Some people do that. Others speed up to race through the intersection,leaving the turner either stuck or turning on red.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yellow means stop if you can do so safely.

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