Thanks for the diagram, Reep.. alot easier to see now what happened...
The scarey thing is that I go through intersections like that every day and I feel like a sitting duck waiting in these interesetions too....don't know if some guy running the yellow or redlight will nail me as I make the left turn, or, if some airhead woman on a cellphone is going to ram me from behind while I wait for traffic to clear. I feel alittle safer when I'm moving and have some speed up because at least I got more of a chance to dodge out of the way.