Hello, hoping here someone can help. Can you get evidence for whether someone had an advanced green at an intersection? My dad was making a right turn on a red (after stopping) into a plaza parking lot. He got hit by someone making a left turn from the opposite lane. The driver told the officer called to the collision that he had an advance green. My dad said he came out of nowhere which makes me question whether he in fact had the advance green. We went to the intersection another day around the same time of the accident to check how the lights changed. In some instances, there was no advance green, in other cases there was. We asked at a police station about how the lights function at that particular intersection. They weren't able to tell us but said that the advance green is sometimes activated by the number of cars waiting. In which case my dad would have seen the cars waiting to turn. We are contemplating going to trial with this as my dad did nothing wrong. I wanted to know whether there is some way definitively find out if the guy who hit my dad in fact had an advance green. Thanks a lot!

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Proof for advanced green

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Freya
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Re: Proof for advanced green

Thanks, Argyll, for your quick response. I agree and this goes back to my original question of whether it is possible to verify whether the other driver, did in fact have a green light.

Thanks, Argyll, for your quick response. I agree and this goes back to my original question of whether it is possible to verify whether the other driver, did in fact have a green light.

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I don't know how you would do that. The lights don't keep records of their timings and I think I saw you write that they sometimes have a green and sometimes don't for the opposing turn lane. I think your problem will lie in the fact that the other driver, regardless of whether they ran a red or not, would have been on the roadway into which your father turned.

I don't know how you would do that. The lights don't keep records of their timings and I think I saw you write that they sometimes have a green and sometimes don't for the opposing turn lane.

I think your problem will lie in the fact that the other driver, regardless of whether they ran a red or not, would have been on the roadway into which your father turned.

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there was actually a guy there who told my dad that he saw what happened (but doesn't want to testify) who said the other driver was going fast and did a wide turn. My dad had started making the turn when the other driver arrived.

there was actually a guy there who told my dad that he saw what happened (but doesn't want to testify) who said the other driver was going fast and did a wide turn. My dad had started making the turn when the other driver arrived.

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So who hit who ? Which part of each vehicle was in the collision ?

So who hit who ? Which part of each vehicle was in the collision ?

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Re: Proof for advanced green

He side-swept my dad, knocking off his front bumper. The other car was fine.

He side-swept my dad, knocking off his front bumper. The other car was fine.

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