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Originally Posted by zamler
The law is horribly written probably on purpose. If the light turns yellow when you are 1mm from the stop line you can't stop, but technically you are breaking the law? If this was true then photo radar would be dishing out tickets for every driver that proceeded through the intersection when the light was yellow, but did not turn red while they were still in the intersection.
AMA interprets the law as this:
If that is not indeed how the law works then the law is idiotic. |
Well, first of all, those cameras are red light cameras, not yellow light cameras, so they are set to nab red runners and not yellow runners. According to the law, they could nab yellow light runners.
But yeah, this happened 20 years ago and I'm pissed to this day. Yellow means stop.
As you can see from the law I quoted, it's different from the way AMA frames it. Incidentally, I took my drivers' training through AMA and that is why I thought I was correct. I checked that book before court so I "knew" I did nothing unlawful.
Nope. Yellow means stop. If you don't stop for a yellow they can ticket you. You can go to court and fight it, but if you acknowledge entering an intersection while the light is yellow, you have just admitted guilt. It literally happened to me.