Traffic light camera on crossings..

stingray_316

We have a Traffic light camera on one side of a main road , not on the opposite side or the side roads crossing over.
I have often wondered how or where you would get caught by this type of camera as l often see cars going though the red lights on the side roads crossing over and cars coming from the other side of the main road.
Would having a camera sited only on one side just catch traffic going past it through the lights .

unholyangel

Are you sure its definitely a camera to enforce red lights and not perhaps a sensor? Would make sense - a lot of lights around here are the same. The lights stay green on main roads and only change to red when traffic comes from a side road.

Scrapit

It will take photos of people jumping the lights where it's pointing. Others jumping won't be caught.

stingray_316

unholyangel wrote: »

Are you sure its definitely a camera to enforce red lights and not perhaps a sensor? Would make sense - a lot of lights around here are the same. The lights stay green on main roads and only change to red when traffic comes from a side road.

It is definitely a yellow box traffic camera, not sure if it’s to catch red light jumping or catch them going over the limit .
Or maybe both .

unholyangel

stingray_316 wrote: »

It is definitely a yellow box traffic camera, not sure if it’s to catch red light jumping or catch them going over the limit .
Or maybe both .

Sorry, can't help then

uknick

stingray_316 wrote: »

We have a Traffic light camera on one side of a main road , not on the opposite side or the side roads crossing over.
I have often wondered how or where you would get caught by this type of camera as l often see cars going though the red lights on the side roads crossing over and cars coming from the other side of the main road.
Would having a camera sited only on one side just catch traffic going past it through the lights .

There's one like this at the Bagshot traffic lights just before the M3 junction. My observation is most red light jumpers do it from the direction the camera is set up for, go figure.

sheramber

stingray_316 wrote: »

It is definitely a yellow box traffic camera, not sure if it’s to catch red light jumping or catch them going over the limit .
Or maybe both .

Could it be to catch people who stop in the yellow box.

knightstyle

There is a grey one in Worthing, on Mill Road and it covers the traffic lights at the Heene Road junction. Catches people who jump the lights.
I think only speed cameras have to be yellow?

Car_54

knightstyle wrote: »

There is a grey one in Worthing, on Mill Road and it covers the traffic lights at the Heene Road junction. Catches people who jump the lights.
I think only speed cameras have to be yellow?

Speed cameras can be any colour that takes the owners’ fancy. The guidelines which required them to be conspicuous, and signposted, have long gone.

Mercdriver

Car_54 wrote: »

Speed cameras can be any colour that takes the owners’ fancy. The guidelines which required them to be conspicuous, and signposted, have long gone.

While that is indeed true, they are virtually all bright yellow.