Driving through a red light

Kilty_2

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

I take it you were caught by camera? Just a possibility it wasn't red, but it could be speeding if you sped up and are sure it was amber. Not that it
makes a massive difference!

Red light cameras can't issue speeding tickets and vice versa. The speed is usually on a NIP for red light but it cannot be enforced.

windowshopper100

mahoney wrote: »

I was expecting this comment.

You appear to have got off lightly in that respect. Just think of the comments you'd have got if you'd been on a bicycle. Apparently they all do it.

minnie123

I did it but a police car saw me - got a TS10 3 points and a £60 fine - it didn't make any diff to my ins at all rang them and no change in cost and costs even went down the next year. Don't worry about it, Amber Gambler.

flyingscotno1

Kilty wrote: »

Red light cameras can't issue speeding tickets and vice versa. The speed is usually on a NIP for red light but it cannot be enforced.

They can if it is a Redspeed as installed in several locations.

Kilty_2

minnie123 wrote: »

I did it but a police car saw me - got a TS10 3 points and a £60 fine - it didn't make any diff to my ins at all rang them and no change in cost and costs even went down the next year. Don't worry about it, Amber Gambler.

Puts a lot more peoples insurance up though - I know of far more that a TS10 has increased their insurance than those it's decreased - and those that it does increase it, it's worse than a SP30.

pendulum

minnie123 wrote: »

... TS10 3 points and a £60 fine - it didn't make any diff to my ins at all rang them and no change in cost and costs even went down the next year.

That is no surprise, insurers only take into account traffic offences like red light running at renewal, not while your policy is still in effect, so when you rang to tell them (you did not need to do that) it was never going to cost you more.

When you renewed, you paid less than the year before because your years extra NCB reduced the policy more than your TS10 put it up by. But if you hadn't have got the TS10, you would have paid even less than you did. You will have paid extra for the TS10 but you did not realise.

I have never seen an insurer that ignores a TS10.
Seen a few that ignore an SP30.

Coveredinbees!!!!

Have you actually been caught or do you think you might have, you get a little time on red before a red light camera will go so you might have got away with it, you never know.

maninthestreet

OP - If there was a camera at the lights, and it did take a photograph of you, then you would have noticed a flash - did you?

thescouselander

scot88 wrote: »

I did the same last year...it was amber..and the choice was passengers through windscreen or keep moving. 3 penalty points and £60 fine. All done by post. TS10 as Dave said.

You should have contested that one. It is not necessarily illegal to go through on amber. The road traffic regulations state if it is not safe/possible to stop amber takes on the same meaning as the preceding light - ie green.

flyingscotno1

thescouselander wrote: »

You should have contested that one. It is not necessarily illegal to go through on amber. The road traffic regulations state if it is not safe/possible to stop amber takes on the same meaning as the preceding light - ie green.

If it was 'amber' the Red Light Camera doesn't work- so no ticket by post!