Been complaining, will continue complaining... not sure how it will work out.
The situation is this.
I was riding my motorbike home in the pouring rain, started braking at an intersection with an amber light, but just as I was about to stop I heard a car skidding and a horn blaring behind me. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw a car sliding (in the adjacent lane) toward where I was, so I dropped it into first and took off through the intersection to the other side... where I pulled over and waited until my heart rate went back down.
Then a few days later I got a redlight camera fine for $338.
According to legal advice (I've seen a lawyer already) there is nothing in the road traffic act or any related law that says I have any right to go through a red light to save my arse.
Basically I should have sat there and hoped the car didn't hit me rather than move off to save myself.
So far I've complained to the RTA, the Office Of State Debt Recovery and am plan on taking it to court.
I'll probably get nowhere, but fuck me this is one of the most idiotic situations ever.
( difficultchild, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 3:07, 6 replies)

Best of luck
Sell the story to a few local papers, they can stir up trouble
(Dr Zoidberg is going for a scuttle, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 7:11, closed)

Yes, great idea
especially if you were on a Mercy Mission at the time. You don't deliver human organs to transplant surgeons for a living by any chance?
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 9:37, closed)

I doubt they'll have the flexibility to accomodate you - and, to be fair, if they make this sort of exemption then every red-light jumper will claim it - but on the plus side, losing 338 bucks is far preferable to being horrendously mangled.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 10:31, closed)

glad you're not jam dude
fingers crossed and that. i don't suppose the motorist hung about to give testimony?
(itsOnlyGoingToGetHairier, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 14:09, closed)

seconded on the not being jam
but if the car HAD hit you, surely you would have been pushed forward over the line and been fined anyway?

Come to think about it, if you had have been injured, all those ambulances and doctors involved would have pushed the country's GDP up, thus helping the economy in it's time of need, you selfish, unpatriotic bastard!
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 16:07, closed)

Sue the driver
Actually don't do this, unless you have the CCTV.
( Scrumper, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 15:39, closed)