Went through amber light the other day and there was a traffic light camera there

Biggus_Dickus

Hunyani_Flight_825 said:

fraser5645 said:

lesalanos said:

Cool story.  Is there a question in there ?

Ooops, forgot the main part of asking is there any chance I could get points coming through? Or am I just over thinking 

Yes there is a chance you will need to wait 14 days to find out.

Is it calendar days or working days?

Were_Doomed

Calendar days.

TooManyPoints

Providing you are the Registered Keeper, that you have not recently acquired the vehicle and that your address is up to date and correctly shown on the V5C. If not you may have to wait a little longer.

Silvertabby

Paula_Smith said:

From the Highway Code "AMBER means ‘Stop’ at the stop line. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident"
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/light-signals-controlling-traffic.html

My sister was on her driving test when she stopped at amber - the lights having changed before she reached the white line.  She was then promptly rear-ended by the driver behind, who insisted that there had been plenty of time for them both to get through.

The examiner confirmed that my sister had been in the right - but still failed her because of the accident !

Car_54

Silvertabby said:

Paula_Smith said:

From the Highway Code "AMBER means ‘Stop’ at the stop line. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident"
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/light-signals-controlling-traffic.html

My sister was on her driving test when she stopped at amber - the lights having changed before she reached the white line.  She was then promptly rear-ended by the driver behind, who insisted that there had been plenty of time for them both to get through.

The examiner confirmed that my sister had been in the right - but still failed her because of the accident !

I think not, The normal procedure is to terminate the test with no result. Unless of course she'd already commited a dangerous or serious fault.

Homer_home

Car_54 said:

Homer_home said:

fraser5645 said:

Hello, on Saturday I was traveling to the zoo and the weather was terrible, I was coming up to some lights doing 30 mph, the lights changed to amber but because of how wet it was I didn't feel safe breaking really heavy, but now I'm worried I'm going to get points for going through the light on amber, I'm 99 percent sure it turned red a few seconds after I passed the lights, cheers.

Fyi amber is lit for 3 seconds plenty of time to stop in the wet not only that if you are an experienced driver you will be paying attention to the lights long before you reach them and knowing they have been green for a while you should be expecting them to change and should be getting ready for that 

1. There may or may not be "plenty of time". It depends entirely on how far you are from the line when the lights change.

2. You don''t need to be an experienced driver. You will have been taught this before your test.

3 seconds before the light turns to red is plenty of time to stop from 30 to 0 , if you can't then I suggest you hand in your licence now (I was replying to the op not to the lights changing in general and how far you may or may not be from the line)

So you are saying that a novice driver even though they were taught things before their test are capable of reading every situation and have experience of it????

Homer_home

Silvertabby said:

Paula_Smith said:

From the Highway Code "AMBER means ‘Stop’ at the stop line. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident"
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/light-signals-controlling-traffic.html

My sister was on her driving test when she stopped at amber - the lights having changed before she reached the white line.  She was then promptly rear-ended by the driver behind, who insisted that there had been plenty of time for them both to get through.

The examiner confirmed that my sister had been in the right - but still failed her because of the accident !

That was mean of the examiner , she did everything right and circumstances out of her control caused her to be rear ended?

I would of complained about that examiner 

Silvertabby

Car_54 said:

Silvertabby said:

Paula_Smith said:

From the Highway Code "AMBER means ‘Stop’ at the stop line. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident"
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/light-signals-controlling-traffic.html

My sister was on her driving test when she stopped at amber - the lights having changed before she reached the white line.  She was then promptly rear-ended by the driver behind, who insisted that there had been plenty of time for them both to get through.

The examiner confirmed that my sister had been in the right - but still failed her because of the accident !

I think not, The normal procedure is to terminate the test with no result. Unless of course she'd already commited a dangerous or serious fault.

Quite possible.  She never did pass her test, despite trying at least 8 times.  This incident made a change from her usual excuse of 'he'd passed his quota of women this week' though.

Petriix

If everyone stopped at every amber light the roads would soon be gridlocked. There is a pragmatic balance to be found between making progress and exercising caution.

It is far more dangerous to slam the brakes on than to keep going when there would be plenty of time to get through. I only stop at an amber light if I can comfortably and safely do so.

I have never heard of anyone being pulled over for going through an amber light and I expect the number of successful prosecutions for such an 'offence' would be vanishingly small. 

Car_54

Homer_home said:

Car_54 said:

Homer_home said:

fraser5645 said:

Hello, on Saturday I was traveling to the zoo and the weather was terrible, I was coming up to some lights doing 30 mph, the lights changed to amber but because of how wet it was I didn't feel safe breaking really heavy, but now I'm worried I'm going to get points for going through the light on amber, I'm 99 percent sure it turned red a few seconds after I passed the lights, cheers.

Fyi amber is lit for 3 seconds plenty of time to stop in the wet not only that if you are an experienced driver you will be paying attention to the lights long before you reach them and knowing they have been green for a while you should be expecting them to change and should be getting ready for that 

1. There may or may not be "plenty of time". It depends entirely on how far you are from the line when the lights change.

2. You don''t need to be an experienced driver. You will have been taught this before your test.

3 seconds before the light turns to red is plenty of time to stop from 30 to 0 , if you can't then I suggest you hand in your licence now (I was replying to the op not to the lights changing in general and how far you may or may not be from the line)

So you are saying that a novice driver even though they were taught things before their test are capable of reading every situation and have experience of it????

The OP hasn't told us how far he was from the line.

And I'm not saying that a novice should be capable of reading every situation, I'm simply saying, in the words of the previous poster, he should "be paying attention to the lights long before you reach them and knowing they have been green for a while you should be expecting them to change and should be getting ready for that".