Red Herring wrote:Clearly I will make sure whatever I do is safe, and if I was really worried about a speed or light camera I'd make a note of the vehicles registration number and when I got home I'd call it in. I'd tell them I didn't have a problem with what happened but would they please make a note on the call log that I'd rung and give me a reference number.
ps: I'd like to see what would happen to adiNigel if he sat in front of a Fire engine (sorry, is that "appliance" these days) at a red light!!
Doesn't work. It was in the letters section of the IAM magazine a few months ago. Guy triggered a red light camera in exactly those circumstances and they didn't want to know about his justifications. He had to live with the points.
I cannot see any fire engine driver bashing someone out of the way at a red light just because they were trying not to break the law. The fire engine driver would lose their job and their own license.
Finally, my view on this is that I don't know what the blue lights behind me are responding to, and I should not be putting myself in danger or doing anything illegal to "help" them. The advice in a recent IAM article was that as more and more private companies get blue light status, you can't even assume they've been trained to any particular standard.
What if it was this guy behind you?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7760798.stm