Quote:
Originally Posted by opendoor
Sure, but an officer being a jerk and a judge basically ignoring your side doesn't change the law.
Here's a thought experiment for you. If you produced dashcam footage that conclusively proved that it would have been unsafe to stop (i.e. the light turned yellow half a second before you entered the intersection) and had a reasonable judge, do you think you still would have been fined? Based on the way you're talking, I'd assume you think you would still have been fined because you're saying the law is quite clear and states that you're breaking the law 100% of the time if you enter on a yellow. I think the opposite, because the law clearly allows exceptions to that rule in those cases.
|
A dashcam may very well have helped. Yes, that's an easy thought experiment. They didn't exist 20 years ago, mind you.
If you don't have a dashcam and a cop tickets you then you have nothing. I get that you can't see that somehow and I get that you can't acknowledge the exact wording is yellow = stop and it's 100% up to the subjective interpretation of a cop to make that call even though he's in a different vehicle with different angles and we're talking maybe a second or less of possible reaction time considering the light hasn't even turned red, but honestly, I don't need to convince you. I've lived it. Did you enter the intersection while the light was yellow? Yes. Well, that's illegal, go pay your fine.