people that do an emergency stop when the lights change are dangerous and wrong

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I drive for about two hours everyday for my new job. Have to go through over 20 sets of lights. So many people think that as soon as the lights change you must stop. Aibu to expect people to still go though a second after they go red?

I hope someone catches you driving illegally soon.

He didn't crash so much as glide into the car in front.
The car in front performed an emergency stop immediately on amber.
It didn't hurt me or the baby.
An emergency stop would have hurt me.
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People jumping the red lights causes a massive problem where I live. It's usually ok (although the amount of beeping I hear from the junction near my house tells me someone does it every hour or so) but when tourists arrive and when it gets hot especially it's really bad. People feel like they've been waiting long enough for the lights to change so will go regardless - but then they get stuck as the lights further up have changed as well so end up sitting in the middle of the junction snarling up traffic from every direction. In the end everyone has to wait longer as a result of one stupid person. It drives me mad, because it means I can't get off my drive sometimes in summer!

thatbloodywoman WTF? Who crashes into another car to avoid doing their own emergency stop? That's utterly insane and your DH was certainly too close to the car in front.

So he willingly glided into someone's. At rather than an emergency stop!!

I'm actually scared there are these dangerous drivers out there.... 2 on this thread!

thatbloodywoman if the light was amber on your approach then surely your husband should have been stopping anyway?

He was still driving too close to the car in front if he couldn't safely stop, gliding or not! I would have been furious with him, it wasn't the woman in fronts fault.

You should never be so close to the car in front that you cannot stop. You never know what might happen. They could do an emergency stop at any time - for a child in the road, or an animal, or because of something that's happening inside their car. If you don't want to do an emergency stop for some reason - you increase the distance between yourself and the car in front.

There's a crossroads I cross on my walk to work. Several times a week there's somebody who keeps going a second after their lights have gone red. Because it takes them another second or so to get to the pedestrian crossing, they end up driving across that after the lights have turned green for pedestrians. I would really rather not be dodging death on a regular basis so someone else can shave 2 seconds off their commute.

It wasn't a woman in front. (a man).He immediately got out and said it was his fault....
It was immediately on the change that the driver performed the emergency stop.
It was not amber on approach.

Don't know why I thought it was a woman but makes no odds. It was still your husbands fault. On approach to traffic lights, even on green the driver should anticipate them changing and modify their speed, and distance from the car in front if need be.

thatbloodywoman if you drive into the back of someone for whatever reason it is always your fault no matter what the driver in front says. You are simply too close.

I can't believe your husband would drive like that with you and a baby in the car thatbloodywoman

YY to pedestrians getting driven at when the pedestrian crossing is on green. I've been on that side of things as well and it's terrifying. I've also been trying to turn right at the junction and had someone coming the other way run the red light without seeing me and nearly drive into the side of my car - also terrifying which two small children in the back. Utterly selfish and irresponsible behaviour.

How bizarre. That is what amber is for. If you are very close to the lights when they change to amber and it would involve an emergency stop or you're already halfway through, then you carry on, but there's never any need for anyone to go through on red.

Mind you, I do know a couple of people who slow down when they see a green light in case it starts to change, which is also dangerous.

YABU. This has confirmed my belief that the roads would be a safer place if there weren't any vehicles on them.

I was taught to approach all traffic lights in no higher than third gear and ready to stop. If you do this you never have to slam the brakes on cos the amber light gives you plenty of warning.

You only ever go into the car in front unless they've cut you up if you've been driving closer than the safe stopping distance for your speed.

But a few days after my c section,the car in front slammed the anchors on,on amber,and my dh went into him,in order to avoid our own emergency stop,with me and newborn baby in the car.

The epitome of pfb-ness or what?

As a pedestrian with small children, YABMassivelyU.

Dicks who speed up through the amber light or carry on through a red light are dangerous and extremely inconsiderate. How can we cross the road safely if cars don't stop when they should?

Errrr...red means stop. Not complicated. Amber means prepare to stop.

YABU... I was hit from behind when I stopped at traffic lights just as they turned from amber to red. The guy behind was insistent that I caused the accident since "I should have gone through rather than stop". In reality he had speeded up on approach to ensure he got through and had presumed I would break the law too.

He didn't get very far with that attitude with either the police or the insurance company.

Amber also means stop.

OP, as others have said, amber means stop, so YABU to expect folks to run a red.
Also, I can't quite fathom how hitting a car is preferable to braking. No matter how awesome your brakes, an emergency stop takes time and distance. Hitting a stationary object doesn't. Which would prove the more violent? thatbloodywoman, your husband was driving too close, full stop.