TheInsanity1234 wrote:Did I say anything, anywhere, that implied that I thought I didn't make a mistake? Because if I did, then I do apologise, but that wasn't intended, as I do think I made a mistake.
I read it that your parents thought it was fine, but you weren't sure - a good attitude to question it...
TheInsanity1234 wrote:The delay, however, was unnecessarily long. It was like 6 seconds, and the distance between lights was maybe 30 metres, which leads me to wonder if perhaps they'd put in an extra long delay for the purpose of allowing traffic to join, because I'd waited for quite a while before going.
I think there was an assumption here, I suspect that you will never make that mistake again!
TheInsanity1234 wrote:Indeed, and I'm not sure why I took any other course of action, but there we go.
I'm lucky that I was able to recover from it, rather than ending up in a lump of metal in a hospital.
I suspect that at the speeds concerned you may have been fine, but it wouldn't have been happy!
have a read of this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... art-01.pdfand become an expert on road works and traffic lights!
Alasdair