red lights

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From: mark-william:baker

6 August 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,
why are emergency services allowed to run red lights but according
to the law they arnt allowed!yet if anyone else was to run a red
light they would be fined?

the only people allowed to run a red light is the post office
carrying war documentation?
so why do these other people not get penalties and fines as it is a
clear breach of the law?

Yours faithfully,

mark-william:baker

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Ben Harris left an annotation ( 6 August 2009)

As far as I'm aware, the law in question is regulation 36 of the Traffic Signs Regulation 2002, which quite clearly does allow certain vehicles to run red lights (more accurately, to treat them as "give way" signs) in sub-paragraph 36(1)(b). It also says nothing about Post Office vehicles.

<http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2002/2002311...>

Is there some other relevant law I should know about?

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