FOAK: NIPs

Coming home from work last night I set off a red light camera.

The thing of it is that I coasted up nice and slow as the right filter
lane went red, and didn't cross the white line until the main lights
went red/amber. The camera went off anyway.

How likely that I'll get pinged for this and, in your experience, how
badly does it affect insurance premiums, etc?

Do I have a case to fight the NIP if it comes?

I've had not so much as a talking to from the rozzers in over 8 years
behind the wheel, dammit.

 

Wait & see what the photo shows.

 

My initial thought, aye. I'm tempted to ring Sussex Police and ask
someone about it.

 

Don't sweat it. I can remember at least two occasions[1] where I've
been flashed by a red light camera and nothing came of either of them.

[1] One similar to use, one where I blatantly went through a red light
through lack of observation. Luckily it was very late at night, so
quiet, and nothing was coming the other way.

 

Thus ensuring you're logged in the system rather than potentially
forgotten about...

 

Duly noted.

*Dons tinfoil hat*

 

*Crosses fingers*

 

Play with the comparison engines, but probably not much.

You're having a laugh, right?

 

But the light wasn't red as I crossed the line, crucially...

 

Was the green one on, or was the red one on?

 

Red AND amber...

 

Whereas the rule is you have to stop unless the lighht is green.

 

As per the direct.gov site.

URL:http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consu.../@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_070561.pdf

 

Go back and read the Highway Code.

 

Sounds like a case of premature articulation.

 

And moments after writing that I realised articulation wasn't the word
I was thinking it was.

Need sleep.

 

nice dreams about lorries.

 

Red =Stop
Amber = Stop

You = go!

 

Ho hum. I've always started moving on red and amber and never been
flashed.

Just have to wait and see now.

 

As others have said: red | amber means stop. Personally, I think the
UK traffic lights should be resequenced to green-> amber-> red->green;
most people start to move on red-amber anyway and this confuses
certain individuals, as well as irritating odd people like me who,
despite having a relaxed attitude to out-of-town speed limits, hanging
off in corners, etc., still try to obey traffic signals.

The best system I've ever seen was on certain large intersections in
China: they have two-digit red/green displays that count down the
seconds until the lights change (they display in green when the lights
are green and red when the lights are... you guessed it, red). What
did they do on amber? Can't recall.