Who runs red lights and why?
All types of people run red lights. The most common reason (47 percent) for red light running is impatience. Red light runners are more likely to be younger, have poor driving records and drive older, smaller vehicles. They are also less likely to use seat belts and are three times more likely than other drivers to have multiple speeding convictions. This means that red light runners are typically at a higher risk of injury in a red light running collision and so are the people they crash into. Motorists who are fatally injured running red lights are much more likely (35 percent) to be over the standard drunken driving threshold (blood alcohol concentration of at least 0.10 percent) than drivers of the other vehicles involved in these crashes (6 percent).
All types of people run red lights. The most common reason (47 percent) is just impatience. Red light runners are most likely to be younger, less likely to use seat belts, have poor driving records, and drive older, smaller vehicles. They are also three times as likely to have multiple speeding convictions. Motorists who are fatally injured running red lights are much more likely to be over the standard drunken driving threshold (blood alcohol concentration of at least 0.10 percent) than the drivers of other vehicles in these crashes.
