• greenhell
    plod getting ideas above their station again. worthless.

    youtube.com/watch?v=rnvPMXq3­XoI

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    Cops is right afaik. You need to touch the pavement before crossing the junction as the guy in the video did. Weird, I know.

  • Cops is right afaik. You need to touch the pavement before crossing the junction as the guy in the video did. Weird, I know.

    Nope, more myth.

    Regulation 10 of the TSRGD(2002) makes it an offence to disobey a red signal, bringing in Section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988:-

    (1) Where a traffic sign, being a sign—
    
    ...stuff about size/colour/compliance removed...
    
    has been lawfully placed on or near a road, a person driving or **propelling a vehicle** who fails to comply with the indication given by the sign is guilty of an offence.
    

    Being a pedestrian a la Crank vs Brooks isn't relevant. The offence for someone pushing a bike will be due to "propelling a vehicle" (which includes pushing one) over the stop line which the red light applies to.

    As a pedestrian without a bicycle (or other vehicle) it's not an offence to walk over the stop line since you're not propelling a vehicle.

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