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You can still get a ticket for it if you do it to get out of the way for an emergency vehicle with blue lights flashing
There may be no express law permitting such a move, but do we know if anyone has been 'done' for allowing an ambulance through and rolling over a stop line in the process.
Scrabble-
I think it's come up here before (maybe in the Junction Watch thread...). Can't find anything with a quick search.
My brother got an FPN for moving into a bus lane to let an ambulance past. They refused his appeal despite clear video evidence that he moved in solely to let it past and moved straight back out after it was gone. (In a car not on a bike.)
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Usually emergency service vehicles stop the siren when everyone’s held up at a red light but once on Hyde Park Corner at a red light, an ambulance came up behind and was going mental with all the variety of sirens ie move the fuck out the way. Everyone sat there.
I motioned for a private hire car to move out it’s way and he rolled through the red. Afterwards a black cabbie came flying up beside me leaning on his horn, told me not to tell people to do that because they can still get a ticket.
I said “somebody could be dying you selfish prick” and rode off.
/csb
Greenbank
PhilDAS
You're at the mercy of the reviewing officer in question. Rolling over a stop line on anything other than green is an offence (assuming there was sufficient time to stop since the lights changed), there's no get out clause for "safety". You can still get a ticket for it if you do it to get out of the way for an emergency vehicle with blue lights flashing. The only time you can get away with it, I believe, is when directly instructed to do so by a police officer.
(The argument is that it wasn't the only thing you could have done for your safety, and many of the other options don't involve traffic offences.)