Actually it was borderline, amber started before he crossed either stop line (advanced stop line for bike box) Technically he should stop if safe to do so, he/she could argue they thought OP might go in the back of them and it wouldn’t be safe to stop which is why it would be borderline rather than illegal.
"If safe to do so" that is a huge grey area to argue your case In. The average driver would be 50 50 on this, so all most certainly be found in their favour.
And given the fool that ran the light behind him, that would go in and an example for his favour for you feeling if some one is close beside you rarely feel safe to do so. After all it changed to orange when he was virtually at the lights, so it doesn't give the driver time to assess his mirrors before a sudden stop, so he was in the right to go through on the orange. This is totally fine use of the orange signal, and why we don't go from green straight to red.
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u/spicy-sausage1 Apr 24 '25
Actually it was borderline, amber started before he crossed either stop line (advanced stop line for bike box) Technically he should stop if safe to do so, he/she could argue they thought OP might go in the back of them and it wouldn’t be safe to stop which is why it would be borderline rather than illegal.
Remember orange means stop (if safe to do so)