Last weekend, I had to pop out to Bunnings to buy some more LED light bulbs (as I have been gradually replacing the fluorescent bulbs as they have stopped working). It’s not a long drive but there are a few intersections with traffic lights along the way.
Anyway, I was at the final set of traffic lights before the turn off for Bunnings and this is a drawing of what I saw across the intersection from me:
A Very Poor Drawing of the Traffic Lights in Question
If you can interpret my crumby drawing, the lower lights were displaying a red arrow whilst the overhead ones were not. I can only figure that the light behind the overhead red arrow had stopped working (ironic given that I was out to get new light bulbs). This was obvious enough to me as I had looked at both sets of lights and is a major reason why there are usually (but not always) one, two or more redundant lights to confirm the allowed traffic movements at a given time.
Anyway, the car that was ahead of me seemed to miss this entirely and proceeded to turn right despite the above scenario. Whilst I waited for the green arrow the fellow in the car behind me repeatedly beeped at me seemingly to have me proceed against the red arrow. Knowing it was going to be a little while before the green arrow made an appearance I hopped out of the car and politely pointed out the red arrow on the lower lights which he had missed. To his credit, the chap was quite apologetic after realising the situation and he apologised once again inside Bunnings when we bumped into each other again.
At the end of the day. this is why it is important to double check the lights before you move on and potentially become involved in an accident.
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