On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:33:01 -0500, "
wrote:

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 09:40:45 -0700, "Steve B" wrote:

I went to driver's school a few years ago after a fender bender to reduce
the points, and other benefits.

I always had a question about entering an intersection when turning left.
Do you enter, then wait out in the intersection, with your wheels turned
left, until it is clear? Or wheels straight? You're a sitting duck for a
speeding ambulance, police pursuit, rearender who will send you into
oncoming traffic, whatever. If you stop back of the line, every car behind
you honks.

I was taught to pull out into the intersection and keep wheels straight (so
some numbskull hitting you in the rear doesn't push you into oncoming
traffic). Once in the intersection, you owned it. *ENTERING* on a red-light
was a no-no.

Same here. Right or wrong, if you don't enter the intersection, and
perhaps the car behind you right on your bumper, you'd never make the
left in some cases. It is a matter or survival, regardless of the
rules.