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Originally Posted by Sliver
You continue to be wrong on this. The law - that I quoted on the last page - says this:
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You're not quoting the law. I am.
You're quoting a government information page which has no relevance to legal matters; the actual Act as it's written takes precedence.
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Again, I got a ticket for this. Sounds insane, right? Yeah, I thought so, too. That's why I went to court to fight it.
Did you enter the intersection when the light was yellow?
Yes?
That's illegal.
That's the law, dude. Forget this "safe to stop" business. It's irrelevant if they want to ticket you. It's not vague at all. Read what I just quoted. That was cited to me in court by a judge. Yellow means stop. Red means stop. They mean the exact same thing.
Is there an allowance available if you can't safely stop for a yellow? That, unfortunately, is totally out of your hands, again, as per my experience and the exact wording of the law. Your word automatically loses compared to a cop's. I say it wasn't safe and he says it was safe. Okay, well since he said it was safe to stop and the law says you have to stop, you just illegally entered an intersection.
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Did you argue that it was unsafe to stop, citing the law? Given that you don't agree that the law even exists, I'd assume not. And if you did, I'd assume the judge likely just took the officer's word that it was safe to stop and you lost because the scales are balanced against you in that situation. But that doesn't change the actual law.