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"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.

AIUI you can squeeze past a red light if you think the traffic lights
are out of order. The OP waited five minutes and then had good reason to
believe this was the case.

Likewise, cyclists whose machines do not trigger sensors are not obliged
to die of exposure for that reason.

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.