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So sorry to hear this.
IMO it is so stupid to put a car in nutreul when going through the lights. Accidents like this is why. I doin't care what kind of lock out your shifter has, it's bad and dangerous idea.
Pushing in the clutch is a different deal all together.

BTW it was one of the things Frank Haley taught us not to do when I went to his drag racing school.

Someone said it helps keep the the car from overheating?? BS



From a drivers point of view, it is a safety issue not to put the car into neutral, because of the possibility of shifting into reverse.

From an engine builders point of view, you want to put the trans in neutral as you are lifting the throttle to protect the connecting rods - high RPM's and no load is when the rods are stressed the most and most likely to fail.

This is why many current valve bodies and shifters are reverse pattern, shifting away from park/reverse, and add a neutral at the rear of the pattern to make it pretty much impossible to hit reverse (or park) and still protect the rods.

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