On 11/5/2011 2:55 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:33:01 -0500, "
wrote:

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

I most always pull into the intersection when waiting to make a left
turn on a green light. If you wait behind the white line it may take a
few cycles of the traffic light until one car can go, or at a very busy
intersection you may never get the chance to go. It was very common to
do up in PA, but down here in TN not many people do it... takes forever
for traffic to flow that way. I pull into the intersections (to wait
for my chance to make a left turn) in front of police all the time and
so far no tickets.