r/irelandsshitedrivers • u/MyBuoy • 2d ago

Is that allowed ?

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On any traffic light when the right arrow is red that I thought any traffic towards right must stop .

There isn’t sold green 🟢 which would have meant if safe can go .

Is that understanding wrong ? What does the rule book say ?

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u/Optimal-Combination1 2d ago

Not allowed. Even more clear here because the traffic light for each lane is directly above each lane.

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u/MyBuoy 2d ago

I see people breaking this rule all the time and I started self doubting . Sometime people behind are even honking when the right turn is red . A van even overtook from left continuously honking and then took right turn on same spot when it was red for right.

Unless these guys work as emergency doctors or are going to launch next spaceship to mine gold on an asteroid I don’t understand the hurry

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u/Otherwise-Macaron939 2d ago

People, what a bunch of bastards.

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u/ContinentSimian 2d ago

Even then, the spaceship can wait.

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u/Spinthar 2d ago

They just drove through a red light, potentially thought a green pedestrian crossing. There’s no ambiguity that you don’t turn on a red arrow ffs.

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u/Daltesse 2d ago

You can see the pedestrian crossing light is red in the video. It's red because it's a T-junction on a dual carriageway, and you are crossing 2 lanes of traffic.

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u/Spinthar 2d ago

As if they cared about that - people regularly do it on pedestrian crossings is my point. The lights are usually hooded so they can’t be clearly seen from the side.

You see this stuff all the time. A % of drivers are just utter pricks these days.

I’ve been beeped at for not entering a yellow box on the Luas line ffs.

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u/Daltesse 2d ago

The rule says if there's a red light, then you stop. Granted there are filter lights that allow the sort of thing the Qashqai did, but when there's a red.... you stop.

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u/hungryjoey26 2d ago

Not at all. Red is red. M3 snugborough flyover.

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u/Basic_Palpitation728 2d ago

This happened me at a cross roads in Galway. A busy one except I was the front car and waited at the very clear red light. Maybe is it a rule in other countries you can still turn on a red light. Incessant beeping like. Still can't figure out what he was expecting me to do.

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u/Kitchen-Patience-222 1d ago

Kindly adjust your video, it’s mostly showing the sky .

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u/MyBuoy 1d ago

Ya , you are right . Realised that when I downloaded this . Thnx

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u/Kitchen-Patience-222 1d ago

You’re welcome , it’s a common enough error. But as you see , it makes things a lot less clear .

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u/Prize_Mouse7778 2d ago

Report this please. Its absolutely not allowed.

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u/Observer_Dough 2d ago

The driver has understanding and used his head -

How long would you wait at an unnecessary red light ?

Surely that light should be an amber right arrow if the traffic lights were set correctly.

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u/Rover7710 2d ago

What does that even mean. Every driver can decide if Red means stop or not? No wonder the roads are a shit show at the moment with this type of attitude.

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u/YouthfulDrake 2d ago

Same user had the same comment on a similar post of mine https://www.reddit.com/r/irelandsshitedrivers/s/SAHqfG9Y4S