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[quote=Anonymous]I'm so mad at myself! Several weeks ago I was driving home on K Street, headed towards the Key Bridge. It was after 7 pm and during twilight. Right before going through an intersection, the sun got into my eyes and completely blinded me. I literally could see nothing high up where the light was for several seconds (which was really scary, that has never happened to me before for that length of time). I had to make a decision immediately and decided to just follow traffic (there was another car moving about one car length ahead of me in the next lane over and one directly in front of me) rather than jerk to a complete stop and potentially cause an accident with the person behind me.

About halfway through the light I realized that it had been red (I can't remember how I realized this but I did) and totally freaked out. I was 8 months pregnant at the time and would NEVER EVER have run a red light intentionally. I have never run a red light before and have a great driving record.

Anyway, I just tried to contest the ticket online.. has anyone done this? Trying to figure out whether I have a chance or not at getting out of it. I'm so bummed because I really did NOT mean for this to happen at all whatsoever and the fine is so expensive :( I really think that if a policeman had been there and pulled me over, they would have been able to see what I meant by the twilight induced lack of sight. If it helps, you can see the twilight in the pictures they took with the violation..[/quote]

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