The Officer's View of Your Signal. For example, drivers . In Step 2, we see that if p > 0.5 is false, then p 0.5 must be true. Drivers must make this decision in the blink of an eye, and getting it wrong can result in catastrophe, unless technology can be placed at the intersection to help mitigate these situations. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety also released a report today showing more than 70 percent of drivers admit to speeding, running a red light or reading or sending a text or an email while . Nearly one in three admit to running a red light within the past 30 days, when they could have stopped safely. Flashing red Come to a full stop at a four-way intersection, as you would with a stop sign. a) The proportion of drivers who admit to running red lights is greater than 0.5. More than 1 in 3 drivers (39 percent) admit to having driven through a light that had just turned red when they could have stopped safely during the past 30 days . For example, if an officer approaches an intersection with . R. A. Retting and A.F. Nearly 1 in 3 drivers (32 percent) admit to typing or sending a text or email over the past month, while eight percent say they do so fairly often or regularly. Last year 42,116 men, women and children were killed on American roads - more than 115 people a day, every day, or 1 person every 12 minutes. A large number 56 percent of drivers admit to running red lights part of the time. No one considers these costs in the split second it takes to choose to run a red light, which is why we mention them here. The impact flipped that car around and it landed on top of a third vehicle. SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, July 21, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) If anyone can be called lucky after being in a collision, the occupants of the three vehicles involved in a crash Friday night on Bangerter Highway are lucky, indeed. You can pursue two types of damages in a car accident claim: economic and non-economic damages. This Foundation research was published in January 2021 in the peer-reviewed journal Transportation Research Record. According to MCL 257.612, vehicles must stop when the traffic light turns yellow or when the red light is on. A majority of drivers of all ages admit to speeding.