Our 70 MPH survival.

[pocket-rocket]

Glad y'all are ok. If your laws are anything like Virginia's, the other driver would get hit with being most at fault. We got a law about if someone has a green light and goes, and there's another car coming, runs the red light and it hits them, the drver with the green light is at fault because they didn't check to make sure the coast is clear or something along those lines. It's been a while since I took driver's ed. Good luck on getting another Ranger.

That's about stupid. What's the point of the right-of-way then? When people are blatantly running red lights when I have green, I intentionally start going at them to scare the crap out of them in hopes next time they will pay attention and stop instead of doing like they do and possibly cause an accident.

 

[darkspork]

Glad y'all are ok. If your laws are anything like Virginia's, the other driver would get hit with being most at fault. We got a law about if someone has a green light and goes, and there's another car coming, runs the red light and it hits them, the drver with the green light is at fault because they didn't check to make sure the coast is clear or something along those lines. It's been a while since I took driver's ed. Good luck on getting another Ranger.

I know Virginia is kind of different on road laws (one of the few states where radar detectors are completely illegal). But in every state I've been to, if one driver has a red light and one has a green like the driver with the green light has the right of way, every time. Infact in North Dakota:
Green- Proceed/Go
Solid Yellow- Prepare to stop/yield
Solid Red- Stop
Flashing yellow- yield
flashing red- stop, then proceed when safe to do so.
I'm pretty sure its this way in every state, however it rarely seems to be followed in Minnesota and California seems to have a "1 more car" rule for red lights.

But I do agree, other driver is at fault, 100%.

 

[flyingbrick]

Glad y'all are ok. If your laws are anything like Virginia's, the other driver would get hit with being most at fault. We got a law about if someone has a green light and goes, and there's another car coming, runs the red light and it hits them, the drver with the green light is at fault because they didn't check to make sure the coast is clear or something along those lines. It's been a while since I took driver's ed./QUOTE]

We have that up here too, even for an Emergency vehicle going through a red, you t-bone the thing there at fault for failure to yield to traffic, but the insurance we have is really messed up.

 

[mn_smokeater]

I know Virginia is kind of different on road laws (one of the few states where radar detectors are completely illegal). But in every state I've been to, if one driver has a red light and one has a green like the driver with the green light has the right of way, every time. Infact in North Dakota:
Green- Proceed/Go
Solid Yellow- Prepare to stop/yield
Solid Red- Stop
Flashing yellow- yield
flashing red- stop, then proceed when safe to do so.
I'm pretty sure its this way in every state, however it rarely seems to be followed in Minnesota and California seems to have a "1 more car" rule for red lights.

But I do agree, other driver is at fault, 100%.

im not so sure that prepare to stop applys in ghrand forks some days haha it means stepon it and beat the light. and here we kinda seem to make our own rules