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Igel

(37,180 posts)
16. Depends how it's run.
Mon May 8, 2023, 08:05 PM
May 2023

I've missed getting in under the yellow or ran a red light because I was distracted. It's like the time I slipped going around a cloverleaf too fast and lost control, or when the driver of the car I was in lost control in the snow and wound up in a ditch. Obviously, I was intentionally going too fast (as was the driver that landed her car in the ditch)--except that "too fast" is a judgment call and not always intentional. Any more than the driver of the car that did cartwheels down the freeway decided go get a 10 in the "car gymnastics."

Then again, I've seen people stopped at a red light and rev their engines and accelerate on through light--and then through the red light 80 feet farther along.

They're different kinds of things.

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