“Seeing Red”, Beyers Park, writes:

People going through red lights and skipping stop streets makes me see red.

One morning, on my way from Beyers Park to Ravenswood, a guy in a car in front of me skipped three red traffic lights.

If he was first at the intersection, he simply waited for the opposite light to go amber then he pulled off through our red light.

I found him at the intersection of Ravenswood and Rietfontein, only because he was in a queue of cars, I turned the passenger window down and got his attention (he was on his phone and playing loud music).

I asked whether he knew he just went through three red lights and whether he was colour blind?

He found it funny and said, ‘yes, maybe I am colour blind’, at which point my expletives supply overflowed.

When you stop when you should, some people even nearly drive into the back of you and give you the finger for stopping as you should.

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I blame the EMPD too. Where is the policing around this?

One way to curb this reckless behaviour is to make a point of stopping dead when you have to, traffic light or stop street, forcing the person behind you and on opposite sides to witness you obeying the rules of the road and having to stop themselves, or, at least think about their own actions.

Be that person who STOPS, not the person who couldn’t care less about their own or anyone else’s life.

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