Cleanup of 5th wheel accident in California

2oldman wrote:

Travlingman wrote:
"Driver comments:

"Update to incident: I was traveling 40 mph and the light went to yellow switched in less than 2 seconds. I did run the light, it was my fault 100% however after talking to CHP he says these lights are not timed correctly. I could not stop in time,"

I drove by this on Thursday morning.

Perhaps this particular light was faulty. However, 40mph is well below the speed limit on that road. I've driven this route many times and cringed every time I approached one of these signals, praying it didn't turn yellow at the worst moment. This is essentially a freeway with stoplights, and the CA highway dept won't install impending signal change warning lights several hundred feet before the stoplight. This is common practice in many areas of WA where speeds are 50mph or greater. It's very nice to KNOW that the light is about to change.

I wrote the state of CA about this earlier this year, and their response was essentially "it's not in our code book."

I'll give you 1000-1 odds if you go out there with a stop watch, it's much longer than a 2 sec yellow and there is likely an all red period after the yellow.