Bill Kahn wrote:
Decades ago in another state, I appeared in court for a speeding
citation
and was given traffic school at my request. The class and the police
sergeant
who taught it, all gave up a Saturday to all brush up on traffic laws. On
the
specific subject of running red lights, I learned a rule of thumb from the
sergeant: if a yellow light turns red before you reach the limit line at the
far
side of the intersection, you have run the light. I put the rule into
practice and have seldom run a red light since.
It is a good rule, but after dutifully stopping at a big intersection as the
light was about to turn red, I found that few knew it.
Mark Anderson replies:
My understanding of the law is that as long as the car is in the
intersection when the light turns red, that you aren't breaking the law. Am
I correct in this? Is there a statute on the MN books that specifies what
constitutes running a red light?
Mark V Anderson
Bancroft
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