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driving through a red light
BillieTheBot
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i think i may have drove through a red light tonight :nervous:
i didn't mean to. the roads were just really confused. there were lots of different traffic lights and argggh. it was a genuine mistake. it was on a major junction next to mancunian way and mehhhhh
im new to driving and i just got confused.
really worried now. i don't think there was a camera on top of the traffic light but if there was, how soon will i hear something? would the camera have flashed? i never saw anything flash.
really can't afford to go getting myself points on my licence because of the job ive got now.
advice please.
i didn't mean to. the roads were just really confused. there were lots of different traffic lights and argggh. it was a genuine mistake. it was on a major junction next to mancunian way and mehhhhh
im new to driving and i just got confused.really worried now. i don't think there was a camera on top of the traffic light but if there was, how soon will i hear something? would the camera have flashed? i never saw anything flash.
really can't afford to go getting myself points on my licence because of the job ive got now.
advice please.
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Is driving part of your work? I know some people that it is, yet got points and are still fine, as long as you declare them. If you don't you'll probably get a harsher punishment from your employer. Try not to worry too much, a lot of people have some points on their lisence!
im not worried about losing my job now. im just worried about it affecting any future career prospects which it can.
is there any way of finding out where there are red light cameras? i dont think there was a camera but i wanna know now.
just feel really stupid. im trying to be a really safe driver (ive only been driving on my own a few days) and i do something lame like that. i dont even know if the traffic light was for the lane i was in. there was lots of different ones. really need to get used to my route
mmmm. according to this website (im not sure how reliable it is) there isn't a speed/red light camera where i *think* i may have gone through a red light.
bah. will have a proper look tomorrow.
if someone saw me do it and i was in a wrong (because i still don't know if i was or i wasn't!), could they report me for it or would it go nowhere because there would be no proof?
i think i might have been ok driving through the light i did but i don't know. i will have to look at them properly tomorrow. bah. feel like a proper idiot.
It's not a case of getting used to your route, it's a case of getting used to processing a vast amount of information whilst controlling the car. The more you drive, the more natural the driving part becomes, and you'll have an easier time of it as you just need to pay attention as to what it going on around you, rather than devoting a good portion of your brain to thinking about steering, gears, braking, mirrors, etc.
It gets easier with practice. There's a good reason why I did 100+ miles each night for the first 2 weeks after I passed...
i really hope it does get easier with practice. i feel super shite after doing that. if i did go through something i shouldn't have done, it really was a genuine mistake. if it was a red light for me, i'm just so lucky it was quiet and nobody was driving about.
what made matters worse is that i thought i'd be ok driving with my police boots on. they are heavy and well, as i learnt tonight, i can't drive in them whatsoever. i stalled twice whilst driving to get out of the car park and my colleagues saw me. made a right tit out of myself
i mean don't get me wrong, im learning from all my mistakes but its just all getting me down. im not used to driving. its been 22 months since i passed my test and this is the first time ive driven on my own since. im just really nervous.
They have a maximum of 14 days to send you a notice.
The camera's are only really there to monitor traffic so I don't imagine they will catch you.
everything i do teaches me a major lesson and i don't do it again i can tell you that.
argh. its true when they say that you don't actually learn to drive when you have lessons. its only when you actually go out driving yourself...
i went through a red light the other week - one of those temporary traffic light things - so no camera but a police van was waiting to come through the other side and beeped his horn, but that was it. think he realised it was actually a genuine mistake and let it go.
Just take it as one of those things
Not all lights have cameras and sometimes I think they are just put there for affect. I've worried before that I've gone through a red light where it's been a really confusing road before but thankfully I've never had anything through the post!
Oh god thats really bad! A car once did that when I was sat at lights and a woman and her two little kids and another girl was crossing, just missed them! I dont get people who intentionaly do this and knowingly go through red. I've had it when I was halfway across when the lights were on red and a van came speading down the road, could plainly see the lights and carried on going through at abut 45 on a 30 mph road. And had the cheek to look at me as if I was a stupid idiot for crossing!!
i looked at the top of the traffic light i went through though and it did have a little black camera on the top of it facing me as i approached the lights. aren't the little black ones just sensors?
am i right in thinking that the actual red light cameras are the big grey boxes?
talking on knob head drivers, i was driving back on the motorway tonight and i was in the middle lane. the guy to the left of me overtook me, cut in front of me and went into the right lane. and then he just kept going left and right across the motorway. bloody boy racers!
Yep.
Yeah they would be obvious.
I undertake people if they are sat in the middle lane. How long were you there for?
i was only in the middle lane for a very short space of time. i am aware that you shouldn't hog it.
You shouldn't, but it's not illegal and does happen. It does sound though that the guy you are describing was deliberately being a cock, especially if he swung straight to the outside afterwards.
Depends. To be honest, if someone is able to undertake, you should have moved into the adjacent lane.
I undertake. I've even undertaken useless prats who can't use a slip road, and sit there preventing traffic from getting on the road, leaving you at an angle where you're unable to see what's happening regarding traffic... I nip down the slip road on the inside of them... more-so on the bike, but I did it in the car recently too.
You only use lanes two and three for overtaking, not to sit in them at a particular speed. Even if you're doing 100mph, ifthe inside lane is clear, you still use it...
Motorway driving can be scary, although I prefer motorway driving to driving around Bradford, that's for sure! I recently had some one cut me up on a slip road, if I hadn't slammed on (which then caused problems for the cars behind) he would've run me off the road - luckily it would've been into the barrier rather than onto the motorway.
Then there's the ones who join a 70mph moving motorway at 40mph, that is terrifying! :shocking:
i think you're being a bit harsh, telling her she shouldnt be in the middle lane for ONE minute?! im sure it didnt cause too much trouble.
I know yeah, chill out!
I am one of them drivers you love to hate who drives in the middle lane...ahh well! :razz: