This Subaru on Loudon County Parkway thought they could get away with blowing through an intersection on a red. They didn’t see a cop watching it all play out.
Virginian and Redditor /u/KingYesKing shared a case of Convenient Cop from earlier last week (Apr 7, 2025) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit, showing a driver in a Subaru WRX, try to slip through an intersection with a red light only to get pulled over by an observing officer watching it all play out.
Check out their dashcam footage embedded below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incident happened at the intersection of Loudoun County Parkway and Marblehead Dr. (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As OP’s dashboard video shows, he arrives at the aforementioned intersection just as left-turners in the other direction begin their turns.
For some reason, an impatient driver in a blue Subaru WRX doesn’t want to wait and guns it, avoiding drivers in the middle of their turn.
“They likely went on the turn signal and other car moving. Probably thought the cars turning in front of them were running the light. Horrible lack of awareness, regardless,” /u/Acedaboi1da observantly points out.
“That’s what happens when you text or scroll while driving. I see it ALL the time. Rolling through a red they were already stopped at, texting the whole way through the intersection,” /u/OliverOOxenfree replied.
The Subaru driver makes it across, but not before the observant eyes of a police officer, presumably with the Loudon County police department, sees it all play out.
Without skipping a beat, the officer flips a U, puts on their blues and tunes, and begins to pull the offending driver over.
“Idiot could have waited 8 seconds more and avoided everything…,” the top comment from /u/shibiwan reads.
In Virginia, running a red light gets you a $100 ticket before fees (but it can go as high as $350) and 4 points on your record.
Unfortunately, once any part of your car passes the white limit line, you’ve run a red.
Paying attention at lights with 100% of your attention will prevent this kind of hare-brained move.
