View Full Version : The RETARD blowing through stale red lights...!
toyboy88
08-21-2008, 11:26 PM
Around 945pm tonight, heading home eastbound on 20th Ave north, like 3 minutes away from home...
I'm looking/driving ahead (eastbound) on 20th ave north, stale green with white pedestrian...see it change to flashing orange pedestrian light, all of the sudden just under half a block ahead of me, car (think it was silver, too fast to get a good look) speeds right through a stale red (for him/her) heading southbound on 4th Street NW.
The car had to be going at LEAST (probably faster) a good 60km/h right through the whole intersection. There were 3 cars stopped dead at the light on 4th street heading northbound (heard one car give the "WTF?!?!" honk as he blew by)....
If I were another 4-5 seconds ahead driving of where I was, would have easily been hit and t-boned by the car...just wanting to count myself lucky that I'm still here typing in one piece! :drama:
/rant & thanking for my "luck" (being 4-5 seconds behind the intersection)!
What in the world are you in such a rush for man...???
Seriously dude...here's to hoping no one gets hurt (or worse) from your reckless + dangerous driving tonight/in the future!!
:banghead: :dunno:
A++++ Story would read again.......Can't wait til part 2 comes out.
All kidding aside..these people are morons. There was someone killed on 22x and james mckevitt doin the exact same thing i believe just recently.
toyboy88
08-21-2008, 11:34 PM
Yeah I know...not the most "exciting" story/spotting...
Just me ranting off about stupid morons who think they are superman or something acting all "cool"or what not.
edit: http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/citybeat/public/2008/08/release.20080820_120933_20212_0
not exactly the same, but what you were referring to.
cloud7
08-22-2008, 11:44 AM
I have always said that the most dangerous red runners are not those who run it when it just turned red, but those that are so inattentive to realize that there is even a traffic signal in front of them. I have personally witnessed a couple of serious crashes caused by drivers who knowingly or unknowingly ran red light after it has been red for a long time.
schocker
08-22-2008, 11:47 AM
Originally posted by toyboy88
I'm looking/driving ahead (eastbound) on 20th ave north, stale green with white pedestrian...
:banghead: :dunno:
whoa, you dont have to bring race into this.
sounds dumb though who runs a red like that. I did notice around 20 cars running a red light this morning, oh wait, the light wouldnt turn green....downtown....in rush hour.
badatusrnames
08-22-2008, 11:49 AM
OMG I travel on that road all the time!! I could've been hit!1! My whole life just flashed before my eyes...
But in all seriousness, I can't see anyone being stupid enough to intentionally run a light in that fashion, I'm guessing it was just an incredibly distracted and inattentive driver.
My cousin had a friend who used to run lights like that all the time, she was just the typical clueless and distracted teenage girl behind the wheel of moms minivan that half the time wouldn't even know she had run a light.
Kennyredline
08-22-2008, 12:02 PM
Stolen car? Those guys don't give a shit
adam c
08-22-2008, 12:15 PM
maybe it was TKRIS?
Colin_R6
08-22-2008, 08:44 PM
I've done this on my Motorbike...
But only because the damn sensor didn't pick me up.
Even after getting off my bike and jumping all around the area where I assumed the sensor to be. Probably woulda been pretty funny to watch.
Then again, when I go... I triple check to make sure there are no cages coming my way! haha
Joe-G
08-22-2008, 08:47 PM
LOL, well...you also could have walked your bike across? haha
96GrandAMGT
08-23-2008, 12:54 AM
what kind of car was it?
rps13_sx
08-23-2008, 01:05 AM
i think it was a grandma gt
DayGlow
08-23-2008, 08:45 AM
Originally posted by Colin_R6
I've done this on my Motorbike...
But only because the damn sensor didn't pick me up.
Even after getting off my bike and jumping all around the area where I assumed the sensor to be. Probably woulda been pretty funny to watch.
Then again, when I go... I triple check to make sure there are no cages coming my way! haha
the sensors detect metal, not weight. Next time lean your bike over and that will trip it
Canmorite
08-23-2008, 10:53 AM
Originally posted by DayGlow
the sensors detect metal, not weight. Next time lean your bike over and that will trip it
How do they do that?
badatusrnames
08-23-2008, 11:15 AM
Originally posted by Canmorite
How do they do that?
Magnetic inductance... seriously.
davidm_86
08-25-2008, 05:12 PM
McLeod Trail is pretty bad too. I nearly got killed once by a red light runner. I was waiting to turn southbound onto MacLeod, light turns green for me. I kinda hesitate because I couldn't tell if the signal light was flashing on a car across the intersection from me. (I don't want to suddenly cut in front of them.) I started to roll forward slowly, hesitated for another second or so, then said to hell with it, they haven't moved yet.
So I hit the gas, just half-way through the first lane on MacLeod Trail when a white SUV *BLOWS* past me, doing easily over 100km/h. Missed me by about 6 feet.
If I didn't hesitate that 1 second or so, I probably would have been hit by that SUV right on my drivers side. So yeah, my life flashed before my eyes that night!
Ever since that, I ALWAYS check both ways TWICE before entering a busy intersection. He had a stale red for at least 3-6 seconds before he flew through it.
A year before that I saw a big pickup truck blow through the same lights, only going south on McLeod.
Hell, I've seen a Mustang suddenly dart into an intersection (southbound MacLeod again) at Southland Drive, nearly got T-Boned by a police cruiser, and he drove off. Cops didn't do anything about it, maybe they were responding to something. No lights/siren though, who knows. Either way, he was sitting at a stale light for at least 3 minutes, probably though it was turning green and wanted to race someone, and just punched the throttle. Popped out right in front of the cruiser who slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting him. (I was right behind the cruiser.)
carreckless
09-09-2008, 02:23 AM
I think some drivers just want to show that they can handle high speed driving especially at highways without ever realizing that they could do some heavy damage when they can't control the car or when suddenly something appears in front of them
Shift_Perform
09-09-2008, 02:48 AM
calgary has to much drivers who either drive at a pace rediculously slow, causing unneccessary traffic
or rediculars who run red lights, pull toyko drift stunts causing accidents (and therefore more traffic)
why couldnt people drive at a faster pace, but in a safe manner such as people in NY, LA
those people drive pumping there car just to move up 2 meters, but this helps a lil with traffic, and there rate of accidents during rush hour/traffic jam times are low
calgary road quality is bad enough...sheesh
em2ab
09-09-2008, 08:59 AM
I used to complain about Calgary until I went to Montreal.
I used to complain about Montreal until I moved to Atlanta.
I used to complain about Atlanta until I moved to New York.
I'm glad to be back in Calgary with people who know how to drive!
Jay911
09-09-2008, 09:02 AM
Originally posted by Canmorite
How do they do that?
The intersections that have a square of tar in the middle of the lane use what was already mentioned, an "induction loop". A metal object parked over it will affect the voltage run thru the wire, which the signal computer then decides is a car/etc waiting for the light to change. Bikes are harder to trigger it with, and cars with fiberglass bodies (though their iron/steel frames help) too. We had a loop sensor at the motorized gate at my old place of employment.. a crew delivering a kitchen appliance rolled it over the sensor and that tripped the gate, so there are varying sensitivities.
There's a new kind now that doesn't require digging.. they're the ones you see with tons of video cameras pointing down at an intersection. These cameras and/or the computer they're connected to have a copy of the image of an "empty" intersection stored in memory. When the camera sees anything that is different than its saved pic, it trips the traffic light sequence. (Don't ask me how it copes with different lighting conditions or inclement weather ... maybe it's an infrared camera?)
TKRIS
09-09-2008, 09:08 AM
Originally posted by adam c
maybe it was TKRIS?
Life must be easier to understand if you can only see black and white.
;)
rc2002
09-09-2008, 09:50 AM
Originally posted by em2ab
I'm glad to be back in Calgary with people who know how to drive!
Are you kidding?
Have you been to Europe? Or even China for that matter? Those guys really know how to drive.
Tik-Tok
09-09-2008, 10:05 AM
Originally posted by Jay911
Bikes are harder to trigger it with, and cars with fiberglass bodies (though their iron/steel frames help) too.
Frack me... maybe I should get my deposit back on the Joe Harmon Splinter I was ordering :rofl:
em2ab
09-09-2008, 10:51 AM
Originally posted by richardchan2002
Are you kidding?
Have you been to Europe? Or even China for that matter? Those guys really know how to drive.
If by driving you mean doing whatever it is I have to do to keep things moving regardless of what it involves. My definition of driving is following rules, even if they congest. Then the natural process of traffic analysis will eventually provide a solution.
black_radiation
09-10-2008, 08:54 PM
Originally posted by Jay911
The intersections that have a square of tar in the middle of the lane use what was already mentioned, an "induction loop". A metal object parked over it will affect the voltage run thru the wire, which the signal computer then decides is a car/etc waiting for the light to change. Bikes are harder to trigger it with, and cars with fiberglass bodies (though their iron/steel frames help) too. We had a loop sensor at the motorized gate at my old place of employment.. a crew delivering a kitchen appliance rolled it over the sensor and that tripped the gate, so there are varying sensitivities.
There's a new kind now that doesn't require digging.. they're the ones you see with tons of video cameras pointing down at an intersection. These cameras and/or the computer they're connected to have a copy of the image of an "empty" intersection stored in memory. When the camera sees anything that is different than its saved pic, it trips the traffic light sequence. (Don't ask me how it copes with different lighting conditions or inclement weather ... maybe it's an infrared camera?)
I've noticed my truck doesnt always trip the induction loop styles ones, I always thought maybe too much weight distribution through my tires seeing as they are so wide (38" x 15.50") or would my truck being so high have anything to do with it? seeing as there is such a large distance from the body to the ground (17" from the lowest point of my suspension to the ground)
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