Many years ago, minuet have been around 1988 as I was driving my first car, I was approaching a crossroads between Ravnshead and Sutton in Ashfield, my home turf. You can see this crossroads from miles away as you approach it slightly downhill and it’s all fields around it, and there’s traffic lights. I was doing around the limit, so 60-ish and I see the lights are red, so I drop a gear and start to slow. As I get maybe 100 yards away, my lights turn green. So I get back on the gas and go through on green. As I do so, ALL the cars waiting on the left side also start off and I fly through slightly sideways with all 4 wheels locked up narrowly missing a nearly new white XR3i.
Shaking like a leaf I turn to my mate in the passenger seat and say ‘I was on green wasn’t I?’
‘Yes’ he says
We could only conclude that both sets of lights went green at the same time through some sort of malfunction
So the OPs encounter is entirely beleiveabe to me. I can quite imagine you were both on green.