[AppyPappy]

I was driving early one AM and came up to an intersection with a highway. There was a guy standing beside his car. I stopped and he was very shaken. I saw his front bumper sitting beside the car. The light had turned green, he started into the intersection, an 18 wheeler blew through the light and clipped off his bumper. He had been several inches away from death and he knew it.

[Myrddin]

I came very close to the same kind of collision one afternoon. The light turned green and I started forward, but sensed something coming from the left. It was a full size Cadillac. It blew through the red light at well over 55 MPH. I check VERY carefully now. Even that isn't always enough. I've had a deer leap onto the roadway as I rolled past in my 914 on a dark evening. I was doing about 80 MPH at the time. A very scary encounter.