What is the test for timing a red light?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Datoc v. Raj, 2013 BCSC 308 (CanLII):
The plaintiff’s counsel argues that since at least Walker v. Brownlee, 1952 CanLII 328 (SCC), [1952] 2 D.L.R. 450 (S.C.C.), a driver is entitled to assume other drivers will comply with the law, i.e. not go through a red light. The plaintiff’s counsel says that a similar argument about timing the light has been rejected in other cases, particularly where there is no independent evidence that the plaintiff was actually timing the light or no engineering evidence that the accident could have been avoided had the driver not been timing the light.
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