If you can prove that the yellow lights on those traffic signals are indeed shorter than what is required by law, then you probably have a case, albeit not under RICO. But if you find that the yellow lights are the length of time required by the law, you are most likely SOL.
re: lights on those traffic signals are indeed shorter than what is required by law
Isn’t there some sort of standard that accepted by most jurisdictions as to the length of the yellow light? Seems it would vary from intersection to intersection. Things like the speed limit at that intersection would have a definite affect on the length of the yellow.
Seems to me it would a pretty straight forward task to show that the yellow portion of the cycle had been ‘adjusted’ to a point outside reasonable expectations.