Going through traffic light as they change to Amber.

ethan · 9 Dec 2019 at 22:38

I'd got the sun in my eyes and was driving through a city I am not that really familiar with and just happened to catch I went through the light as it changed to orange Not wishing to risk it I stopped and waited for the lights to repeat their sequence before resuming. I'm not sure if there were video cameras or not on the lights..If there were they would have been 360..There weren't any camera warnings anywhere. Would there be enough grounds to challenge any would be fine? I'm unsure of the law with regards to any of this.

ethan · 9 Dec 2019 at 22:43

UK. I didn't carry on The lights suddenly changed as I was on them. I read somwhere you are not clocked until after 3 seconds they have changed to red.

ethan · 9 Dec 2019 at 22:45

Rroff said:
Are you saying you stopped after passing the white line? and waited out the whole cycle just infront of the normal stopping position?

If you go through as the lights begin to change just continue through with caution - you'd be very unlucky in that situation to be snapped for going through on a red.

Yeah I stopped after passing the white line. It was a wide junction. If I'd have carried on somwhere through the lights would have been on red.

ethan · 9 Dec 2019 at 23:54

Street said:
You should come to Liverpool, everyone here treats a red light as green!

Lol. That's where it was.

ethan · 12 Dec 2019 at 19:39

MissChief said:
If the lights change to Amber and it is safe to stop before the line you should do so. If you were to stop beyond the line, possibly even impeding traffic from other directions you should continue through the junction. However it would be very dimly looked at if you sped up or were travelling too quickly to stop safely when the lights changed to Amber. Even in a NSL, 60MPH road 3 seconds should be ample on a properly maintained, roadworthy car to come to a complete stop from 60Mph.

True

It was a combination of things for me tbh. I was in an unfamiliar area with the low Winter sun smacking me in the eyes from the left with some idiot, (which I did not mention, went through at 70+ mph) from the third lane to my side. It was a really huge junction and I wouldn't have made it if I'd have continued at 30 mph. Luckily for me there was ample room to stop, safely out of the way where I did.