[KenWittlief]

Come on guys! lets look at this logically:

1. He was a film maker .An expert in creating the illusion of reality on film.
2. He had a LOT to lose if someone was hurt of killed.
3. The car was very expensive (more to lose).
4. The driver was a professional racer? Someone else who had a lot to lose if someone was hit or killed.

Stop action filming.
You can drive through a city street at a normal speed, stopping for red lights and then 'running' them when the street is clear, filming at a normal speed. Then back in the editing room you drop frames from the final footage to:

1. get the illusion of the speed you want
2. make it appear you ran red lights
3. even to make turn signals on cars infront of you blink at a normal rate (while the film has been sped up).

This would be easy for a film maker to stage. Early in the morning nobody is on the streets. You get drivers for the other cars and busses that you are going to include in the film, and you have them all drive slow, so it appears you are passing them at incredible speeds.

then you speed up the footage in the editing room.

Its a great final product, nicely done - but its not 'real'.

BTW, this is a good example of why movies, videos and photographs are not admissable as evidence in a court of law. Its too easy to doctor them.