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

Biggus_Dickus

Car_54 said:

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".

Back in the stone-age when my old dad taught me to drive one of the first things he drummed into me was that a Green light does not mean ‘Go’;...it means ‘Proceed With Caution!’.

Regardless of experience that should be a lifelong mantra for every driver.

Petriix

Biggus_Dickus said:

Car_54 said:

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".

Back in the stone-age when my old dad taught me to drive one of the first things he drummed into me was that a Green light does not mean ‘Go’;...it means ‘Proceed With Caution!’.

Regardless of experience that should be a lifelong mantra for every driver.

Everyone knows it's:

Red = rev
Amber = accelerate
Green = go

Were_Doomed

Ah, so that's where rag it comes from.

Jonathan_Powell

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.

What a loser. You can go through an Amber light. People like you you should not be driving. 

TooManyPoints

 //You can go through an Amber light.//

Under what circumstances (just so that we are all clear)?

cooldude255220

Jonathan_Powell said:

What a loser. You can go through an Amber light. People like you you should not be driving. 

Not true, and offensive to boot. 

(9) An amber signal, when shown alone, conveys the same prohibition as red, except that, as respects any vehicle which is so close to the stop line that it cannot safely be stopped without proceeding beyond the stop line, it conveys the same indication as the green signal which was shown immediately before it.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) to (6), the red signal conveys the prohibition that vehicular traffic must not proceed beyond the stop line.

Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/14/made

Supersonos

Reading online, red light cameras will take one photo for speeding and two photos for going through a red light.

Why two photos for a red light offence?  Surely you'd want two photos for a speeding offence to prove the speed of the vehicle?

Car_54

Supersonos said:

Reading online, red light cameras will take one photo for speeding and two photos for going through a red light.

Why two photos for a red light offence?  Surely you'd want two photos for a speeding offence to prove the speed of the vehicle?

For speeding, the speed is measured by laser.

For red light offences, the speed may be too low to measure accurately (AFAIK the cameras are only type-approved for certain speed ranges, e.g. 20mph+), and indeed the only question is whether the vehicle was moving at all. Hence two photos.