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, ‘The Supreme Court ruled that even if a vehicle is expected to stop in the middle of an intersection when a yellow light comes on before entering the intersection, it must stop.’,
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, ‘The Supreme Court’s third division overturned the original ruling that acquitted a driver who caused an accident by entering the intersection without stopping at the yellow light and sent the case back to the Incheon District Court on a guilty verdict.’,
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, ‘In July 2021, the driver was indicted for colliding with a motorcycle at an intersection in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, injuring the other driver.’,
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, ‘At the time, the driver was driving over the speed limit of 20km/h and did not stop at the yellow light before entering the intersection and causing the accident, with the key issue in the trial being whether this driving behavior constitutes a violation of traffic signals.’,
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, ‘The first instance court did not consider this as a signal violation, arguing that even if the driver had braked immediately after seeing the yellow light, they would have stopped in the middle of the intersection beyond the stop line.’,
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, ‘The second instance court also ruled that demanding an immediate stop upon the yellow light changing in front of the stop line could lead to the risk of traffic accidents by forcing vehicles to stop in the middle of the intersection.’,
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, ‘However, the Supreme Court overturned the second-instance ruling, stating that if a vehicle fails to stop right before entering the intersection after the yellow light turns on, it should be considered a violation of the signal, regardless of the expected stopping distance being longer than the distance to the stop line.’,
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, ‘Citing a previous Supreme Court ruling that “when the yellow light comes on before entering the intersection, the vehicle must stop at the stop line or right before the intersection, and the driver cannot choose whether to stop or proceed.”‘,
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