Amber nicked-her?

A Warning for drivers and cyclists. An instructor on a 4 hour Speed Awareness Course - offered as an alternative to 3 points on your licence - informed the class that where there is a small camera fitted on the top of a set of ATS - Automatic Traffic Signals - its purpose is to photograph a vehicle/driver failing to stop when the signal is Red or Amber. Take care.

Asked on 21 August 2010 by DA, via email

Answered by Honest John

But it isn't an offence to fail to stop on an amber. Only on a red. That's why traffic lights would be a lot safer if the UK adopted countdown and count up signals as in China and Thailand. Not sure how transgressing cyclists could be traced from photos of their backsides.

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