I had left St Joe's Hospital years ago visiting a friend's dad, and we(the family) were sitting facing the red light in second place, on Jamison and Lakeshore, facing south. In front of us is a little Toyota something or other. The light turns green and the Toyota starts to advance. In the middle of the intersection it clips the back quarter of a honking Olds that had run the red on Lakeshore, despite the fact the other two lanes were filled with stopped cars. The toyo had a married couple in it, a 3yearold and an infant behind the driver. The lady in the olds , was in a borrowed car no insurance on suspended license. The father in the toyo(passenger) hurt his back and hadn't worked in the year+ it took to go to trial.

Had the toyo been a wee bit faster, it would have been smashed on the driver's side and that infant almost assuredly would have been killed if not mom too. I was out of the car/on 911/directly traffic etc, in a few seconds. The Olds driver was indeed concerned for the other ppl (to the point of tears) but at the end of the day she didn't appear in court, where it came out that this was not her first time doing this (though this was the first time she almost killed). Driving is a god given right you know, you can take the wheel from my cold dead hands. Makes me think cultures that remove the hands of thieves might be onto something.