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How Can I Check If I Got Done By Red Light Camera?

Rekin

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Rekin Grand Master

Rekin

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Hey,

Today on Cnr Stud Road & Heatherton Road, there was a malfunction with the traffic lights. The traffic on Heatherton road was stuck on red light for about 20minutes, even when the lights turned red for Stud rd, they remained red on heatherton road.

Sometimes it glitched up and started flashing yellow (out of order) and then went back to staying constant red on heatherton road.

After being stuck at the front on the right turning lane for 20 minutes, i decided to turn left on the intersection to get onto stud road and then followed by a uturn.

After doing a search on the internet, it mentions that there is a red light camera on that intersection, is there any number i can contact to see if i have been booked? Would be unfair to be fined due to their screw-up. Worried that because i have no proof of the incident that they might think im lieing?

halp halp!

(i was on the turning right from heatherton onto stud rd, away from dandenong, but did a left turn instead onto stud road towards dandenong.)

Thanks

unarmed_skyline Experienced

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did you see a flash?? duno how u can check but if they send you out something write a letter saying the circumstances chances are they will let you off. I assume that the would somehow be able to tell if the light are stuch on red for extended perid of time

eMsta Grand Master

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during the day it would be pretty hard to see it man....my guess is that just wait till the ticket comes (if it comes that is) - no use fretting about it now. If it does come - just complain that the traffic lights were going nuts...

Swink33 Community Regular

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I agree with emsta but I'm guessing that the people who process the fines will know the lights were faulty today and won't bother trying to book people but the way it is in Vic these days, I may have ignorant thinking

Spunky Munky Grand Master

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Call come the Civic Compliane office in your state, give your rego details and explain you want to check if you have been red-lighted - they will transfer your call to a traffic cameras officer and he/she can tell you right there and then.

Normally within 48 hours all fines are registered so you can check. I do it some times when I want to be sure... but note that if they say you're booked, you can't dispute the fine until it arrives.

zorb_rules Experienced

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yeah if theres faulty lights you may get the fine just explain what happened.. I once ran a red light to make way for an ambulance stuck behind me after receiving the ticket I wrote them a letter they checked the ambulance gps route and time of day and I got off my fine.. I guess you situation is kind of similar.

some_cs_student Veteran

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If there was a single false photograph on the redlight camera the entire film is destroyed (or at least that's what Tenix claim). So if the lights were failing when you went through they should not take it any further.

But, red light camera's are a little hard to miss, if they are doing a right turning lane then they are usually mounted just before the turning lanes.

Rekin Grand Master

Rekin

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from what ive read, red light cameras take 2 photos, one when you cross the white line and the other as you are in the middle of the intersection. As the camera may have been behind me to take picture of rear number plate, i instead did a left turn on a right lane, so the 2nd flash would have been my car 90degrees to the camera. If that makes sense haha

Ill call the camera place on monday and see whats happened.

Thanks

4drftn Experienced

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did you have your brakes on when going through? if you have your brake lights on in the photo you can say that there was a car that was slow infront of you and you couldnt get through the intersection... worked for a guy i knew anyway. got away with it

khunjeng Veteran

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lol at this dribble.

the wont even have prcessed it yet.

Disbute it if it comes, say the lights were faulty and they will go suss it out if they havnt already voided that camera for that peroid.

some_cs_student Veteran

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did you have your brakes on when going through? if you have your brake lights on in the photo you can say that there was a car that was slow infront of you and you couldnt get through the intersection... worked for a guy i knew anyway. got away with it

This happened to me, except I was *in* the intersection stuck in traffic when the light went red, problem was my rear wheels were touching the end of the pedestrian crossing :(. I got the fine after challenging them.

Kozeyekan Proficient

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you rarely get done for turning right, because the camera takes a picture when you're already in the process of turning, then once you're almost perpendicular. If it's day time it can be a bitch to make out the plate on an angle, and with reflections it's even harder.

Plus, if it was going for so long, then there's probably a horde of people in the same boat.

They might try it on and send you a fine if they can read your plate, but I think you have very little to worry about.

33_skyline Enthusiast

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Red light camera only take photos in the direction they are facing on one leg of an intersection.

So as long as the red light camera wasn't on the same leg of the intersection you were on then there is nothing to worry about.

dalostcambo Collaborator

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You were on Heatherton Road and was meant to turn onto Stud Road?

I don't think there is a camera there if I am right..

Left is Mobil, across the road from there is Red Rooster?

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