How being a distracted driver can make you think you have a green light when, in reality, you’re headed for one expensive and possibly injurious collision.
Saratoga County commuter and Redditor /u/DylanSpaceBean shared headshaking dashcam footage from earlier in January (Jan 28, 2026) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing a distracted driver mistake turners going next to him as his cue to go when, in reality, he’d begin to run a red light, instead.
Check out the near-miss dashcam video below with the original Reddit thread linked here…