Did they tell you what the police officer's situation was? It would be interesting to know where they were, what they saw, what they were doing at the time... and as a concrete point, if they wrote any other red light tickets at that intersection that day.
Like, if they were sitting there watching the intersection hoping to ticket cars for running red lights, then I could see them screwing up -- seeing what they were looking for, or mixing up your car with the actual culprit. (Do they actually do this? Stand up some red light cameras and go fight crime, will ya.)
If they were apparently just around there doing something else, and claim they noticed you run a light... in that situation it would be a strange thing to make a mistake about out of the blue, and a strange target to lie about, so I guess I'd tend to believe them?
I don't know about you, but I can conceive of not noticing I went through a yellow if I perceived it as an "uninteresting" yellow, turning close enough ahead that there's not a decision about stopping. So if I managed to misperceive that far enough, it could happen, but yeah, I guess it would imply a full second-plus of inattention to the light, which would be alarming.
Much of that I don't know, but he ticketed a car behind me as well. That answers whether they wrote any other red light tickets in a trivial way, but that's not quite what you really meant.
Like, if they were sitting there watching the intersection hoping to ticket cars for running red lights, then I could see them screwing up -- seeing what they were looking for, or mixing up your car with the actual culprit. (Do they actually do this? Stand up some red light cameras and go fight crime, will ya.)
If they were apparently just around there doing something else, and claim they noticed you run a light... in that situation it would be a strange thing to make a mistake about out of the blue, and a strange target to lie about, so I guess I'd tend to believe them?
I don't know about you, but I can conceive of not noticing I went through a yellow if I perceived it as an "uninteresting" yellow, turning close enough ahead that there's not a decision about stopping. So if I managed to misperceive that far enough, it could happen, but yeah, I guess it would imply a full second-plus of inattention to the light, which would be alarming.
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It would be interesting to have the opportunity to compare notes with that driver.
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