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Japan flagTakeo Koyanagi
Car accident Hello, everyone! I just wanna make sure that the following sentence is correct. He plowed into my car on a red light ! ( means he rammed his car into my car at intersection and I was on a green light, he was not.) Thanks!!

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"He plowed into my car jumping/ignoring/missing a red light." would be far better. Unfortunately, replacing one of these suitable verbs with 'on' just screams of laziness or ignorance. English has thousands of verbs, and a handful of prepositions, so if we were to use prepositions for verbs regularly, we might just as well grunt as speak.
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Thank you, Manal !!
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Your sentence is grammatically correct. But according to what you put in the parentheses, you could make the sentence clearer by writing something like: He plowed into my car when he should have stopped for the red light!

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