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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You maybe not have gotten a ticket but you are old and they didn't have red light cameras when you were doing most of your driving. You can't honestly tell me you haven't run a "red" light. Just like everyone else we don't often slam on the brakes when the light turns yellow, and then 2.5 seconds later it's red. It's not as big of a deal as you are trying to make it. It's just another way for city governments to make more money.

It's not like she blew through a intersection that has long been red with traffic already moving and narrowly avoided a semi. Stop overreacting.[/quote]

OP here - There has been a camera at that red light since before I got my license.  I drove though that intersection every day of my life until I left for college.

Of course I have accidentally run a red light - I am from NYC, yellow means speed up here - but never with my kids in the car and not as blatantly as she did.  If you read my original post carefully, you would know that in the first photo, the light was red and the car had not even reached the crosswalk.  The cars going in the opposite direction on the other side of the intersection were stopped and the car in front of her was already on the other side of the other crosswalk.  In the second photo, she was in the middle of the intersection.

Anyway, she is fired.  It makes me sick to think of what could have happened.  I know that intersection and the driving patterns there like the back of my hand.  She is incredibly lucky that she did not t-bone someone making a last second left turn.

Thank you all for your comments.[/quote]

You owe her severance if you are the one choosing to terminate the employment. Just FYI.[/quote]

not if you fire for cause, like in this case. I really want to see a nanny successfully argue that running a red light twice with the child in the car is no biggie[/quote]

Did she get in or cause an accident? Then you can't fire her for cause.[/quote]

You are a complete idiot!!!! [/quote]

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