Traffic Lights

[TheVoice]

(they CAN still get prosecuted for running a Red!!)

Providing they're responding to an emergency and it's safe for them to proceed through a red light, I can't see them being prosecuted. Some ambulance services have started adding a static blue LED to the rear of their RRVs and ambulances purely to prove that there's an emergency, should they be caught by a speed or traffic light camera.

 

[bullit in head]

"Some ambulance services have started adding a static blue LED to the rear of their RRVs and ambulances purely to prove that there's an emergency, should they be caught by a speed or traffic light camera."




wow thank you. I've been wondering about thatfor ages. I noticed it and wondered about it. now I know every days a school day


bullit

 

[GFX707]

They can be triggered at night by flashing your full beam at them so that the lights are green by the time you reach the lights if the road is clear.

Jokester

Don't think you need to do this, from personal experience if you are the only car on the junction it will change a red to a green for you. Not saying I'm right but it's always done this for me....

 

[GFX707]

Doesn't work on all of em!... mainly on main routes that Ambulances/Fire/Police need to negotiate at speed on a regular basis... Like Thamesdown Road in Swindon... Long stretch of Dual Carriageway with Lights almost every 500 yards ( ) the flashing headlights of the emergency services trigger em to Green (they CAN still get prosecuted for running a Red!!)... I've tried it!... if speeds up my Journey home from one end to the other (past Adsa) quite nicely!

Didn't they cover that myth on some TV programme? I remember they came to the conclusion that unless you can flash your lights at some ridiculous on/off rate not possible with just the flashing stalk there was no way a non-emergency vehicle could trigger a change.

I think if the lights change to green it's because the junction is quiet apart from your car, I mean how many times have you been coming up to a junction when driving in the middle of the night and had the lights go green for you as you approach? Happens to me all the time.

 

[csmager]

Don't think you need to do this, from personal experience if you are the only car on the junction it will change a red to a green for you. Not saying I'm right but it's always done this for me....

They do, but you'll most likely have to brake and almost stop before they change. Flashing from a distance will ensure they change before you have to start slowing down, which is all good. A secondary reason for them all being red at night is to slow you down!

 

[Jonny69]

The cameras facing the traffic as they approach the lights are motion sensors to trigger the lights to turn to green if they're green on the otherside without traffic (or even red on both sides to save time).

They can be triggered at night by flashing your full beam at them so that the lights are green by the time you reach the lights if the road is clear.

Jokester

This is true except the ones in the London are set to turn the light red as you approach. It's bloody frustrating especially when the light sequence usually includes the crossing light and I'm sat there at 3 or 4am with the crossing light bleeping. Suffice to say a lot of lights get jumped in London.

 

[dirtydog]

This is true except the ones in the London are set to turn the light red as you approach. It's bloody frustrating especially when the light sequence usually includes the crossing light and I'm sat there at 3 or 4am with the crossing light bleeping. Suffice to say a lot of lights get jumped in London.

I am always too afraid to jump red lights in case there is a camera or a police car watching. I do get caught in a red light at least a few times a week when there is no need for it to be red though