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kitkat9933

kitkat9933

kitkat9933

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Just got a notice saying to confirm if I was driving my vehicle at the time as I've been caught going through a Red Light, 0.4 seconds after it had changed.

The irony is it was on a turn into the car park of the place where I sold this car before my new Mercedes next week.

6 Points and £100 fine, but as it's under 3 seconds, I may be offered a Traffic Light awareness course after I've confirmed myself as the driver at the time.

I can see the 'incident' on my dash cam as it's the last footage on it and it changed to red as I was driving through it. Now I would contest it but if I do I won't be offered the chance of the course and I can't take the points as it would make my uninsurable on my new car. Does anyone know if I can contest it after I've done the course?
 
If you contest and lose you'll probably end up with a bigger penalty?

Isn't the standard time for an amber light 5 seconds?
 
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iaind said:
Amber means stop. So what is there to contest?
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Yeah this, thats the whole point in the amber light you had enough time to stop before it turned red. How can you argue with that unless the amber light didnt show. I guess you saw the amber light and did what so many people do and sped up to "make it" before the red light, while what you should have done is as soon as you see the amber slow down to stop for the red unless unsafe to do so e.g your 3ft away from the lights and it turns amber then you may carry on.
 
iaind said:
Amber means stop. So what is there to contest?
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Technically it means stop if it is safe to do so. But yes, silly for going at a speed where it wasn't safe for you to stop at some lights. Just do the course OP, they aren't going to care that you recorded it.
 
kitkat9933 said:
I went through on amber, it changed as I was going through but there was a car behind me and I couldn't stop really - I even have the evidence on dashcams.
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It was amber for 5 seconds, you didn't slow down, you had adequate time to stop and you chose to chance it, it bit you in the butt.

Gonna have to take it on the chin, dems da risks.
 
kitkat9933 said:
I went through on amber and it changed as I went through.
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No, you went through on red. You made the decision to go through whilst it was amber.

It's 3 points + £100 for jumping a red light unless things have changed recently, but if I were in your position I'd take the course if offered.
 
kitkat9933 said:
I went through on amber, it changed as I was going through but there was a car behind me and I couldn't stop really - I even have the evidence on dashcams.
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A car being behind you is irrelevant - if they couldn't stop it's their fault not yours.

I'd just take the course and be grateful it's not worse.
 
RyanF said:
Technically it means stop if it is safe to do so. But yes, silly for going at a speed where it wasn't safe for you to stop at some lights. Just do the course OP, they aren't going to care that you recorded it.
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What madness is this? Amber means go faster, everyone knows that. :p
 
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