Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
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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.

Cyclists can always dismount and walk across the junction.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)