Short Yellow Lights Mean More Tickets, Money For Cities

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you're braver than I am. where I live are kooks packing iron who have been known to shoot at people whose driving they did not like.

Where I live, even if you have two people stop in the middle of the road and talk to each other, blocking traffic from both directions, nobody is going to start shooting at you.

By the way, driving slow saved me a bunch of tickets a few years ago. I was driving to town on Sunday afternoon but was in no hurry at all so I drove about 45. There was a car a mile ahead of me going about the same speed and I assumed that it was some older neighbors who lived a few miles away.

When I approached a stop sign a few miles down the road, I saw that it was a state trooper. Considering that the old car I was driving had really bad tires, no inspection sticker, and no muffler, he would have had plenty of reason to stop me. Not only that, there was also a problem with some less obvious items like windshield wipers and either brake lights or turn signals -- I forget which. I slowed down and he turned left. I went ahead and turned on a back road and stayed on it the rest of the way to town.

I guess discretion is the better part of valor, or something like that

Did you ever get any collisions?

I thought yellow meant slow down and warning you the light is turning red. I will slow down when the light turns yellow and sometimes I end up in the middle of the intersection and I will back up if there are no cars behind me. I will slam on my breaks once the light turns if there is no one behind me because I will not risk getting rear ended, I don't know if the driver behind me has started slowing down once the light turned. Luckily they have installed the count down on the crosswalk meters so that warns me about when the light will turn and how many seconds there are until the light turns. But that only works if a pedestrian has hit the button to cross unless it's automatic.

Every area must be different because I remember my mom telling me you won't get a ticket if the light turned right when you were at the intersection or else you would be in the middle of it once you stop. but I guess they want people to get rear ended because that is how insurance companies makes their money and the police department makes their money from paranoid people like me if we get caught not slamming on our breaks.

If you are in the intersection, you should continue through it. I can't think of any reason to back up other than being directed to back up by a police officer on the scene -- it would be rare for the police to direct you to back up.

If you entered the intersection after it turned red, then you ran the light. Trying to back up isn't going to change that.

Also, if there were any pedestrians waiting for the light, they may have already started across. Back up and hit one and you are really in trouble.

If anything, backing up might get you a second ticket for reckless driving or something like that.