One victim, Angela Singh, was driving with her two young sons in Leeds when a police car hit them after going through a red traffic light.

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Or perhaps one in fuchsia or traffic light red?

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The show started with clothes in camel, black and gray but these immediately gave way to oversized leopard print sweaters, a short suit in traffic light red and a wispy blue dress with a cutaway hem that was paired with drainpipe trousers.

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Somewhere in the Second Arrondissement, a traffic light turned red.

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Last year, he announced plans to classify the performance of English hospital trusts using a simple traffic-light system of green, amber and red.

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Crossing Bloomsbury Street, just by the British Museum, it can often take southbound traffic up to ten minutes to get through a single red light.

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Some retailers and manufactures have preferred a "traffic light" system in which the least healthy foods are labelled red and the most healthy are in green.

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You will have your own favourites, but I always liked the Traffic Light Tree in London's Docklands, a bewildering display of red, amber and green which kept me waiting, transfixed and tense, for really quite some time when I first encountered it.

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