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Got flashed going through a red-light Help!

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  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Classic. Gets offered the get out of jail pointless course (IMHO) and talks of going to court.
  • Car_54
    Car_54 Posts: 9,054 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    tho wrote: »
    Basically, ask yourself a couple of questions. You were on the road, you saw the flash so you know that they've got a picture of your car. The only possible defence really is you were in a (genuine, someone is actually about to die) life or death situation.
    How is that a defence?
  • tho_2
    tho_2 Posts: 326 Forumite
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    edited 19 December 2025 at 8:30PM
    [quote=[Deleted User];73938270]How is that a defence?[/QUOTE]

    Its not. And that was my point.

    It is however just about the only mitigating factor that would be considered at court, and as I tried to make clear, there has to be a clear emergency situation.
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