Safety Message: Red Light Runners

[StagLefty]

]If you look at this video, I guarantee you'll look around a lot more at intersections.

I saw this awhile back and it made me look around at every light.

[trlcavscout]

I am all for "red light" cameras. I have seen several fatal accidents in Las Vegas and here from people that believe they are in that much more of a hurry then everyone else. I seen a pedestrian get hit sun night on Colfax by someone who didnt have time to stop.

Friday night me and the kids were bored so we went to the gas station to get candy bars. I almost got T-boned by a Dodge pickup (I was in my wifes car and it was on the highway, 50 mph zone), the guy ran the red light about 45 seconds after I had the green light. If I hadnt seen it in time he would have nailed my 8 year olds door. Then he honked at me and sped off. If I wouldnt have had the kids with me I would have went and had a talk with him. It was very close to being a real bad night!

[Irving]

I don't think that red light cameras will stop people from running red lights at full speed like in your example trlcavscout. However, I do believe that they cut down on people making left turns through red arrows. People who do that irritate me very much.

[theGinsue]

Back around 1994, my wife t-boned a guy who did just that (made a left turn right in front of her - SHE had the right-of-way). He got a ticket. She had a major bruise across her chest, was in pain for weeks, needed help getting up when she laid down, and totalled her less than 2 year old car - THEN HIS insurance company had the audacity to offer us about 1/3 of what her car was truly worth. I tried to discuss it with them over the phone - they hung up on me repeatedly. I went to speak to them in person - they threatened to call the police on me when I raised the BS flag to their "comparable vehicle" which was 4 years older, a whole different syle and had more than 100k miles than my wifes car. Things got really ugly with them for a while.

Having a recording a their drivers actions to potentially take to court could have been enough to get them to change their tune pretty danged quick.

[Irving]

Having a recording a their drivers actions to potentially take to court could have been enough to get them to change their tune pretty danged quick.

No it wouldn't have. They already accepted liability (all the video would prove) and they were just dicking you around on the price.

[clublights]

The Way I've dealt with insurance companies has been fairly simple .. assuming there are no physical injuries in your car ......

mention that lawyer you saw on late night TV and how your starting to get an itchy dialing finger........

I've had checks in a matter of hours after that. ( got rear ended at a stop light by a drunk driver. had a check in my hand in less then 7 days from the time of the accident)

[Irving]

People bullshitting about lawyers never scared me into action when I was a claims adjuster. A drunk driver rear ending someone stopped at a light is a pretty open and closed case.

[clublights]

People bullshitting about lawyers never scared me into action when I was a claims adjuster. A drunk driver rear ending someone stopped at a light is a pretty open and closed case.

True it is .. but the company was trying to stall ...
They had not talked to the other driver ( since he was either still in the hospital or in jail ) I was under 25 at the time .. didn't have a Credit Card, so renting a car was not going to happen. I have no family in colorado, so getting a check cut to replace the " brand new to me " car ( I had it for 3 days when I got hit ) was pretty important and waiting was not an option.