I was wondering if one gets a ticket if one runs a yellow light that by the time the hood of their car levels with the traffic light and then turns red?

 

duck under the dash board and your fine.

 

yellow light means that you should prepare to stop because the lane is about to close. if your car is before the stop line of the intersection by the time the light turns red, you have run the redlight.

 

Dude, I read your statement 10 times and can't make any sense of your grammar.

Technically, if your car is ALREADY IN the intersection (meaning over the cross walk lines, or imaginary line if there is no cross walk or marker line) then it is completely legal.

But mind you, flooring it so that you make the light is NOT legal and CAN result in a ticket. Yellow means slow down, not speed up. If you can't stop, then you should be able to cruise through legally. If you can't do either, it means that you were either driving inattentively and/or were speeding.

 

If an officers observes you flooring it to make the yellow, you CAN still get a ticket. It's called, "Failing to obey a traffic light/signal."

 

^^yep yep, das right

 

If I remeber drivers ED correctly, a yellow in definition by law actually means you are to stop at the yellow unless otherwise unsafe to do so.

 

so technically if a cop wanted to be a ***** he could legally give you a ticket for running a yellow no matter what color it was when you were under it

 

^^
Yes and yes. Moral of the story, play nice. If a cop says that he witnessed you running a red light, the ticket stays; even if it's not true. Guilty until proven innocent. . .

 

I was waiting for a bus yesterday and I witnessed someone get pulled over for doing just that. The cop was saying something along the lines of "when it turns yellow, you need to slow down, don't speed up." I think as long as you don't accelerate to get through the intersection before it turns red, you should be fine (as long as you're not speeding to start with!)

The girl who had gotten pulled over got away with a warning, though.

 

Was she HOT?

 

Take it with a grain of salt, but I've been told if you're rear wheel is past the white "stop" line and you're not speeding up to make the light, then you're fine. I'd bet cops exercise a little more leniency if you're roads are covered w/snow and ice, in which case, it'd be more dangerous to slam on your brakes and potentially lose control of your car instead of just coasting through the light.

What bugs the hell out of me are people who become completely indecisive about what to do when the light turns yellow and they speed up, hit the brakes and then speed up and then ultimately end up running the red light bad or really have to slam on their brakes causing everyone else who was braking normally to have to panic stop. My wife is one of these people; drives me crazy.

 

the way i judge those type of things is, if i see it turn yellow by the time its up to my sun visor im fine, anything before ill stop