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Originally Posted by Sliver
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.
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If you're approaching an icy intersection like many of us have this week and the choice is to enter through a yellow or slam on the brakes and risk a crash behind you, there is certainly a grey area that is open to interpretation. A good driver needs to make these decisions based on the conditions and what is going on around them.
It doesn't give a person a carte blanche to go around and abuse yellow lights, but just like the OP driving too fast for the conditions, it all needs to be assessed by the driver at that given time. Any decent cop or judge is going to take things like this into account.