"John Rowland" wrote in message
...

Sometimes a traffic light that you know very well seems to have a Windows
moment and will inexplicably remain on red for ages. If you are in a
one-way
road and a traffic light breaks down showing red, you can't back out out
of
it and so would have to go through it eventually. Does the law say
anything
about how long a traffic light has to stay on red before you are allowed
to
go through it? Or are you legally required to sit there for days with the
cars behind beeping at you until an engineer fixes it?...

It is an absolute offence to cross the stop line or to pass the light when a
red light is showing.

There used to be one in Glasgow, in the days of electro-mechanical systems,
that would sometimes only change if you got out and gave a hard kick to the
green box next to it. You then had to get back in the car sharpish if you
wanted to get across while it was still green.

Colin Bignell