A woman walks past a red light without stopping. A police officer sees her but does absolutely nothing.
Why?
The answer is simple: she is walking, not driving.
A red traffic light tells vehicles when they must stop at an intersection. A pedestrian walking nearby is not necessarily violating the traffic signal simply because she walks past it.
The puzzle works because the phrase “red light” immediately makes most people imagine a driver going through an intersection illegally.
But the clue specifically says that the woman walks past the light.
That one word changes the entire situation.
The police officer does nothing because there is no reason to stop her for driving through a red light—she is not driving a vehicle at all.
Answer: She was walking, not driving.
