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Ok,

The story goes like this...received my photo in the mail today, ran red light. I remember this day clearly because I jammed hard on the brakes when realised the light had gone from amber to red. When the photo was taken, my car was clearly over the line (with brake lights on). BUT, I did not cross the intersection, I actually reversed back and waited for the green light again. My question is should I write in to contest this as I technically did not follow through. Anyone have any experiences on the technicalities on this scenario?

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Jon

P/S have held a clean record for the last 4 years.

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chances are slim to none...the law is that you cannot go past that line as that is the point of "safely stopping" I doubt contesting will do any good...having said that it's unlikely contesting it will do you any worse...it will take a bit of time to get a court date and go in..but in the end you havent really lost anything other than some of your time.

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I remembered someone told me once that when they take a photo of you running a red light, they take one after u cross the initial line and another photo when you cross to the other side? My brake lights were on as well, which prooves I was pretty much stationery, otherwise I would have just went right through

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Something similar happened to my uncle I believe. He wrote to them and got them to check the next couple of frames after or something and in the end they realised he'd stopped and reversed back. Sorry I can't remember exactly, it was a while ago. Worth a shot though I reckon.

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All the red light camera photos I've seen from a cop down south is that it takes 3 photos... one as you've triggered it, then another 2 every 2 seconds or something after it's triggered.. but I know there is about 3/4 photos taken.

It's worth a try, if you can see your brake lights on in the photo, it's obvious you were making an attempt to stop.

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