Always look, even on green lights

[Arfa]

Had a scary red light jumper moment a few weeks ago, over on a roundabout coming off A13 up Lodge Avenue, in East London.  Was one of them roundabouts where they have staged lights for each set of roads coming onto roundabout. I was waiting at the lights to go onto roundabout, lights go green, I'm off, but low and behold a huge articulated lorry carried on round the roundabout, through his red light! The lights had gone green so long ago I was far enough ahead to be out of the way, but the cars behind me all had to stick their anchors on to avoid going into the side of this lorry...

Again, this island is a hotspot for red light jumpers. It's not helped by being quite a tight round about, so if you're on the island, you don't see the red lights facing you until you're pretty much at them. This is also in East London/Essex where there is a disproportionately high number of shite drivers, many having bribed their way through their test, are wannabie boy racers or just plain stupid.

So yeah: red, amber, green, look twice then go! The danger is, if you do hare it off and then have to emergency stop, will the chap behind you also haring off be able to do an emergency stop and not mash you into the red light jumper? Better to hold back, before a second, so the guy behind you isn't also doing an emergency stop.