The traffic light is one of the most characteristic elements of the streets of any city in the world and one of the Road signs important to which we must pay close attention given that its mission is to regulate vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
That is, through the three lights that they have and that turn on alternately, cars and pedestrians know if they have to stop, if they should be alert because they have little time to travel or if they have a free way to circulate on the road. way or way by which they do it.
The green color implies that the car can travel on the roads at the speeds and with the conditions established by the rest of the regulations, when it changes to yellow it indicates to the motorist that he must slow down because the red light will soon arrive, which is the that indicates that you must stop the march because the street you cross is the one that from that moment will have free movement and also pedestrians will have the possibility of crossing the street through the corresponding pedestrian path.
The latter is extremely important to be respected because the car must stop just before or on the line that anticipates the pedestrian path, so when the traffic light changes from green to yellow the motorist must be alert that the change to red is imminent and then must slow down to stop before reaching the pedestrian path.
On the other hand, there are traffic lights whose mission is to guide pedestrians, for example, the ideal is that when you are in the role of pedestrian you check them carefully and in detail. It usually presents the figure of a person walking and when it is lit with a transparent light it indicates to the pedestrian that they can cross without problems because the traffic is stopped and has the passage; when the little man is stopped and flashes red it warns the pedestrian to hurry because soon the signal will change to that of the stopped man, fixed and illuminated with a red light that indicates NOT to cross in any way.
From the foregoing then it is clear that not respecting the signals of a traffic light constitutes a very serious road offense that can be plausible to be punished through a fine that involves money or withdrawal of the driver's license, depending on the legislation and the reiteration of faults.
