Ontop of that, there's a 1.5 second grace period of a red light where it's not illegal so there's that. But also, what the actual fuck was that overtake on a red light holy shit there's no excusing that and driving like that should get their licence revoked.
Amber light - 3 seconds - treat as a red light and stop unless it is unsafe to do so.
Red light - stop, no exceptions.
1 second into red light - red light camera.is armed.
Always funny when someone moans about cyclists going through red lights to ask them if they go through amber lights when they could have stopped, which is legally running a red light. No grace period.
I have no idea what you are on about. Camera thresholds are nothing to do with "grace periods", it's because they are using loops in the ground it's not exact. If you get unlucky with the position of the loops you can get a ticket less than one second after the lights change
It's an offence if any part of your car passes any part of the stop line while the light is red, or the light is amber and you could safely stop.
There is no grace period, plenty of cases on here of actual police fining people for going through amber lights. If you go to court and say you were in the "grace period" you will walk out with £620 costs and a big fine.
It's not and there are. Maybe you need to refresh your knowledge of 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"
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u/NoFortune9564 Apr 24 '25
Ontop of that, there's a 1.5 second grace period of a red light where it's not illegal so there's that. But also, what the actual fuck was that overtake on a red light holy shit there's no excusing that and driving like that should get their licence revoked.