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Gosh the internal review process for traffic fines is such a crock of shit.

I’m challenging a red light camera fine as I think it was incorrectly issued - my car crossed the stop line when the light was yellow, then it turned red and the cameras went off. You have to cross the stop line after the light has turned red to commit the offence. Wrote a detailed challenge with reasons, my recollection of the situation, referring to the photo evidence you can access etc, all I got back is “we are satisfied the offence was committed”. That’s it. Pay up or go to court.

I’m in this crap position of having only my recollection of the situation to rely on. I can’t prove my car was in the intersection when the light was still yellow outside of pointing to the police photo which shows exactly this. But that wasn’t good enough for the review. It’s a really expensive fine too. Feels like guilty until proven innocent rather than the other way around.

I’ve been much more careful since this fine, the light is yellow I’m stopping. I don’t trust those fixed cameras one bit.

I always thought you should not enter an intersection on an amber light or you are gonna get done once it’s red.

Iirc it specifically says something along the lines of “you must stop at a yellow light unless it is unsafe to do so”. If the light goes red when you’re 5 metres from the stop line and you’re barreling down the road at 60, obviously you aren’t going to stop