Dash cam, Part 4: T-bone treachery

Ancient suburban proverb say: dash cam tell no lies.  Note that I'm going to no special effort to get any of this material.  It's just the status quo of what happens on our local roads, with life-threatening near-misses multiple times each day. 

FM 518 at Calder, heading south across the intersection.  It was 7:31 pm, so the sun was getting low and the resulting overexposure of the dash cam washes out my traffic light, but you can see the opposing traffic light quite clearly. 

As I waited for my green, a white Jeep proceeded through the intersection on his yellow... no big deal with that.  It turned red before he cleared the intersection.

Then, a full two seconds later, this guy in the maroon truck ran the red light.  Notice that his wheels look more blurry than those of the Jeep.  That's because the Jeep was proceeding at speed limit, but this maroon idiot was blowing down FM 518 and through the red light at about 60 mph (speed limit on that segment is what - 35 mph?  45 mph?).

In other words, running the light wasn't an accident - it was a conscious decision.  (S)he did not care about that decision's potential consequences for me, a mother returning from Walgreens with prescription medicine for a sick child.  People like this only care about their own pathetic asses. 

Fortunately, none of us had jack-rabbited the intersection, so nobody was hit by this idiot.  You'll see this type of scene routinely at Calder - people will hesitate to proceed, because they know how dangerous FM 518 is.  In the words of my former Driver Ed teacher, "Green never means 'GO' - green only means 'GO if it is SAFE to go'."  At Calder, 'safe' takes careful verification.