Temperary traffic lights

[Atomic Punk]

If you can see at the other side of the lights, that the traffic has stopped, do you wait untill your side goes green or just go?
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[Fizzer Thou]

Sometimes lights can be on local control so best not to jump the red light in case a big lorry suddenly backs out and into your path
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[-Matt-]

I'd always wait, not just legality wise but on the off-chance something does somehow come out [maybe someones stopped to let something from a side road come out into the ongoing opposite flow of traffic], if you do set off, and everyone behind you does as the others start coming again you're all going to get majorly stuck.

Don't want to be the one at the front getting bubble gum and fag ends thrown at you when it finally clears

[Skudd]

Usually wait like a good boy, but sometimes just to show I'm a rebel without a clue I will go through when all is clear.
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[James83]

As I understand it, its not a specific offence to go through temporary traffic lights (Where 'proper' ones have specific rules), however I believe you are open to charges of driving without due care, and if you have an accident, you will almost certainly be found at fault, and possibly done for dangerous driving.

This is what my uncle told me many years ago (He was an active copper at the time). He may have been wrong, and if not, the law may have changed. If anyone knows better, feel free to correct me.

[Nemo]

The only time I jump lights is when the proper one's switch off the "timed mode" and can't sense I'm waiting there.

Got stopped twice for this, but they let me off since I didn't just dart out and took a good look around.
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[Rogerborg]

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[Entertwainer]

i've never jumped while waiting, but if there are several cars in front going through a set of temp lights and the lights change to red while they are still driving through the works, i'll tag along and run the red if there is enough time for me to catch up with said cars in front....i see that happen a lot more when the lights are a fair distance apart - and providing they aren't a 3 way system.

[Hetzer]

Tem fuckin POR rary.
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[Timmeh]

I've jumped a set of lights, but only because they were 10 feet apart either side of a manhole cover.

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[yen_powell]

[Vracktal]

I got a TS10 for doing something similar to this. 3 points, £60 fine. It was 2am at some abandoned roadworks, and the lights weren't changing despite me being the only vehicle on the road so I got fed up of waiting and went through them since I could see there was nothing coming the other way....

Except I wasn't the only vehicle on the road after all. Turns out the little speck waaaaaay off in the distance was an unmarked BMW 5 series who promptly caught up and ticketed me for it.

Totally not worth it. :/ I wait at them like a good boy now.
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[-Matt-]

[Andy_Pagin]

Why borher jumping lights? Most sequences only last ten or twenty seconds.
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[Timmeh]

I can recall at least one situation where the magic box has gone wrong causing all the lights to get stuck on red, this was in edgware road and as you can guess it caused absolute mayhem.

In the end the rozzers turned up and started directing traffic.
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[Yoyo]

I do it all the time, if it is at night and clear, with a good view of the other side.
Most temporary lights have, 'auto jump' on them meaning if you do jump them, they instantly turn green your side and red the other. Just to stop on coming cars.
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