Cleanup of 5th wheel accident in California

troubledwaters wrote:

cbshoestring wrote:
Once that point is crossed, I'm coming through the intersection no matter what color the light is.

I pray in reality you're really smart enough not to kill someone; because that statement represents a pretty irresponsible attitude for a big rig driver.

In most but not all states, the rule is you must stop on Yellow unless it's unsafe to do otherwise.

The formula is such that if you enter on red, you had time to safely stop and the deceleration rate assumed is easily achieved by trucks and RV's. Cars can easily exceed the assumed deceleration by wide margins.

The yellow time is typically set to account for perception/reaction time plus the time to come to a stop.

The all red time is the time to clear the intersection if you do enter at the instant it goes from yellow to red (an upper limit is often used but if you were in the intersection for a couple seconds, cars on the side road had plenty of time to see you before entering).

So the original statement implications varies greatly depending on if the poster was suggesting they entered on yellow or on red.