As an Atlanta injury lawyer and metro Atlanta driver, I want to remind my fellow drivers to wait and look in both directions when you are the first stopped car at an intersection when a traffic signal turns from red to green. Every day as I drive to and from my office, I see motorists trying to beat yellow lights. Unfortunately, too many drivers do not beat the light and drive into the intersection after the light has turned red. When this happens, drivers waiting on side streets have green lights and come into the intersection into the paths of the vehicles resulting in violent collisions causing serious injuries and sometimes deaths.
Over the years, I have represented a number of drivers and passengers seriously injured in these types of collisions. Because the drivers running red lights are almost always trying to beat the yellow light and accelerating, the collisions are often severe. If you are driving a car that is the first stopped and intersection on a red light, a very simple way to avoid these collisions and being seriously hurt or killed is when the light turns from red to green, wait and look in both directions to ensure that vehicles coming from either direction are not trying to beat the light and all vehicles are stopping as required by law. Once you have done this, then you may safely proceed through the intersection and go on your way. It is that simple.
Drivers trying to beat the light cause serious car accidents and injuries every day in Atlanta. If you are a victim in one of these types of collisions, please call me. I welcome the opportunity to assist you with your claims against the at fault driver.
