Crazy car drives through red lights, smashes bike

[fredie]

very bad driving http://www.break.com/index/car-blows-red-light-and-hits-biker.html

[Moxy]

Link didn't work (get rid of the colon angry2 colon at the end of the url), but yeah, in my area, it's a frequent sight to see cars go straight through give-way and "stop" intersections without even slowing down.

There are a couple of these coming onto the main road I ride up and down every day.

Basically a monthly occurance for me to think "glad I slowed right down, otherwise I would have smacked into that car"

[car]

Basically a monthly occurance for me to think "glad I slowed right down, otherwise I would have smacked into that car"

*shudder*

Yeah. Also "pick your time and place to play Traffic Light Grand Prix." Sometimes it pays not to be too quick off that green.

[MotoGirl]

*shudder*

Yeah. Also "pick your time and place to play Traffic Light Grand Prix." Sometimes it pays not to be too quick off that green.

It drives me nuts when people run red lights! I always look at them and think "dangerous bastard".

Tauranga has a lethal intersection that I use on a daily basis. Every time the light turns green, you actually have to stay put for a few seconds and give way to the half dozen cars running the red light. I could understand it if they ran the orange light, but they're still coming from the other side of the road when I'm on the green. :Oi: what's that about?

[Griff]

I don't believe what I saw !!!

The tosser of a driver was actually going to pull the biker away from the front of the car just before the policeman arrived!!!!

:spanking::spanking::spanking::spanking:

[swbarnett]

Tauranga has a lethal intersection that I use on a daily basis. Every time the light turns green, you actually have to stay put for a few seconds and give way to the half dozen cars running the red light.
The problem is one of psycology. Drivers know that there will be a short period after their light goes red where yours is also red. They use this gap and will often get it wrong without even knowing it. If there was no gap i.e. if their light is red yours is green and vice versa, drivers will have a much easier time of deciding when the intersection is availble to them.

I'm not trying to excuse the idiots that run reds but at the same time we don't want traffic lights that invite this sort of behaviour.

[klingon]

...in my area, it's a frequent sight to see cars go straight through give-way and "stop" intersections without even slowing down.

Happened to me a few months ago, but the car that was going through the stop sign without slowing sown was behind me. I stopped, she didn't. :angry2: Broken ribs, bruising, concussion, written off bike. I still have disturbance to my vision as a result of this.

People can be really really really really incompetent behind the wheel of a car. :angry2:

[Highlander]

It drives me nuts when people run red lights! I always look at them and think "dangerous bastard".

Tauranga has a lethal intersection that I use on a daily basis. Every time the light turns green, you actually have to stay put for a few seconds and give way to the half dozen cars running the red light. I could understand it if they ran the orange light, but they're still coming from the other side of the road when I'm on the green. :Oi: what's that about?

Just the one?

Bet I'm thinking of a different one to you.

[Waylander]

Just the one?

Bet I'm thinking of a different one to you.
Cameron and Route P, The two new lights at the cement factory end of Hewlets Rd, The pedestrian light near the Welcome Bay Round-a-bout and the lights for the corner near Baywave and Bayfair.
The two on Hewlets Rd are particularly bad, I've seen big rigs blow the light there and sit in the middle just like they used to for the round-a-bouts.

[Patar]

Introduce a lot more red light cameras and maybe even one's the cops can set up at random.
At the moment running red lights can only be caught if a cop is sitting at the lights and even then I doubt the cops would bother going after them.

[car]

Introduce a lot more red light cameras and maybe even one's the cops can set up at random.

Much as I hate speed cameras (at least when used inappropriately) I can't help but agree with this. There's sod all excuse for jumping red lights, it's not even fun, and having been on the receiving end a couple of times, I can assure you that it's quite painful. You want revenue-generating cameras? Stick them on top of traffic lights.


At the moment running red lights can only be caught if a cop is sitting at the lights and even then I doubt the cops would bother going after them.

Hmm.

[Roj]

Introduce a lot more red light cameras and maybe even one's the cops can set up at random.
At the moment running red lights can only be caught if a cop is sitting at the lights and even then I doubt the cops would bother going after them.

At the times the cops do they make good money, $150 instant fine,

set up more red light cameras then they could reduce our tax...:devil2:

[Mikkel]

That's just gruesome to watch! The amount of spins he manages to pull before he comes down again is just scary. Almost looks as if he head butts the car before getting thrown up into the air.
And that car certainly wasn't running the orange - it was green for the biker from the beginning of the video. Can only hope the guy wasn't too badly hurt.

As for enforcing it in NZ. I think there's an easy fix - up the fine and add a 50 demerit point penalty for running the reds. Currently there's not demerit point penalty!

[imdying]

Fuck that, I just pull out in my car now... scares the fuck out of the red light runners :D

[EJK]

Do they even have a thing called "Licence"?

[car]

Fuck that, I just pull out in my car now... scares the fuck out of the red light runners :D

Hahaha!

There was a cycle-path crossing point just after a fast, busy roundabout on my way home from where I used to work, a long, long time ago. I used to get sick of stopping my pushbike and standing there for ages in the rain, not knowing who was coming off the roundabout because none of the suckers would indicate properly. One day, I got sufficiently pissed off that I decided i was going to teach one of the buggers a lesson.

I spotted a likely target as I was approaching the crossing, haring off the roundabout at speed, no indication. I hit the crossing at running speed, not making any show of looking where I was going and, at the very last moment possible, grabbed the seat with my right hand and simply stepped off the back of the bike, the bike flying forward an arms length onto the crossing and then swinging up onto its rear tyre. By this point I was holding eye contact with the driver's passenger who *shat* herself and slapped the driver. Job done.

Looking back, it was bloody irresponsible, and I don't recall whether I checked for traffic behind him or anything sensible. I had more testosterone then, and less sense. But her face was priceless.

[ambler]

If someone had a video camera and a lot of free time, would there be any point doing your own 'red light camera' thing? I mean, would submitting the video to police lead to fines being given? Just wondering

[Waylander]

If someone had a video camera and a lot of free time, would there be any point doing your own 'red light camera' thing? I mean, would submitting the video to police lead to fines being given? Just wondering
More than likely not mate. Hell they weren't gonna come out to check out my car being broken into even though I had a very good idea who did it until I told them there was on the broken glass and a trail leading to one of my neighbors driveway.

[ElCoyote]

Fuck that, I just pull out in my car now... scares the fuck out of the red light runners :D


I go one better, my bogie intersection meets a major side road. I have a $200.00 tardme special and when my light turns green I go. If I don't harpoon them (which I do regurlarly) it's because they choose the footpath, and yes I sleep better afterwards knowing I was in a cage not a bike.:bleh: