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Talk about irony or maybe coincidence.

On my way home 30 minutes ago, I entered an intersection under a green light and had to wait to turn left until oncoming traffic passed. While waiting the light turned yellow. Oncoming traffic slowed for the yellow and then stopped for the red. I completed my turn, but I think the camera took my picture. It will be interesting to see if a ticket shows up in the mail. Another vehicle did not follow me through, but I did not notice if another vehicle went straight through the intersection behind me.

I also thought that entering the intersection under a yellow was acceptable. I also thought that if the light turned red while in the intersection we had a right and a responsibility to clear that intersection. I would make the court date and see the judge. If you loose, and I did once, I was still offered deferred adjudication.

Mine was a speeding ticket and the officer wrote the wrong date on the ticket. I thought that this would get dismissed because of that, but the judge said that it only had to be on or about the date. I wasn't in a position to argue. He asked if I'd still like the deferred adj., so I took it. Then years later we hear about an HOV cop getting stopped in his personal vehicle in the HOV lane with only one occupant. A local news crew has it on camera since they were there doing a story. The ticket was later dismissed due to an error on the ticket.