"Resist the temptation to teach them a lesson" is such good advice. It's really helped improve my driving this last year.

“Would you expect it from this taxi driver” - absolutely yes

The last guy points to you and looks to be laughing/smiling - I think he's just recognised you mate! He could also have done a thing I did once, which was flash to let someone out who clearly couldn't go and then laugh when I realise how stupid I've been :)

Never trust someone flashing you out. Hit a car that was flashed out a few years ago. Wrote my car off as she drove a across blindly in a 3 lane road. Yet the girl just kept repeating but the taxi let me out, I thought it was safe. Police driving behind quickly told her why it was wrong.

9:35 - you can have whatever penalty you want for mobile phone use, unless there are enough police with enough resources to enforce it, means nothing unfortunately.

It's quite refreshing watching this channel compared to UK Dashcam sometimes - just to see there is a way of dealing with someone else's dangerous driving that doesn't involve: 1. Accelerating up to the hazard to become part of an already dangerous situation. 2. Holding on the horn for at least 5 seconds to tell the other driver off. Just got back from picking a mate up 30 mins ago. Had a driver enter a roundabout causing me to brake. Beeping my horn wouldn't change what's already happened so I just cracked on with my day. I dare say these vids are starting to rub off on me. 47 years old, never too late to learn. Keep up the good work Ashley 👍

Regarding mobile phone penalties I think the penalties are sufficient (6 points and £200 fine) to act as a deterrent, it's just the risk of being stopped by the police is so low due to resources being so massively stretched. It could be a £1000 fine and instant ban with phone thrown in the river, but for the type of drivers who use their mobile whilst driving the 0.00001% chance of being collared by a traffic officer is sufficient to carry on regardless.

Absolutely agree that harsher penalties need to come in but I also think that we need more police out on patrol to hopefully see these people and stop them and enforce what's already in place.

09:20 It seems like every set of lights I stop at nowadays the person behind me reaches straight for thier phone, all walks of life doing it as well. As you say harsher penalties needed.

I was on my driving test when someone flashed for me to pull out. But it wasn't safe so I stayed put. The examiner said that being flashed doesn't put me under any obligation to move if I don't feel safe.

Those pizza delivery drivers with L plates are LETHAL! Because you don't know how experienced they are, it's even more difficult to anticipate what they're going to do. I personally give them a wide berth if possible and treat them like cyclists and pedestrians.

Although highly unusual without their blue lights on, there may be situations where an ambulance functioning as a high dependency transport (HDU) will try to avoid sudden stops, etc. even if it means going through red lights. Generally they are driven by extremely skilled drivers with well above average anticipation ability, etc. so as to avoid that kind of thing though. I doubt it is the case here but it is one function of ambulances people are often unaware of which can mean they are driven in an unexpected manner.

The amount of drivers overtaking me whilst I’m doing the speed limit is crazy and I’ve not been driving long. Motorbikes: whilst they’re filtering I’m always watching them in my mirrors and if I’m in a queue I always leave more than the usual car,tyres,tarmac just in case the bike needs to use the space. Your channel has helped a lot,not just while I was learning but even more now that I have my own car. My eyes are everywhere and grey matter is working overtime 😂

Just a thought about delivery riders. Many of them have 'L' plates on, but I strongly suspect they're not insured for business. Consequently, they could be breaking the law.

I think there must be a separate Highway Code that's universally adopted by all delivery scooter riders, as they're exactly the same where I live. Rule #1 in their code probably states that they should never be more than one inch from the vehicle they're following.

I also had such a "flashing" moment. I wanted to turn left into a gas station and the oncoming vehicle stopped and flashed. But there was a bicycle lane as well and there was a mother with her child walking down there. The driver was starting to wave his hands that I should go. He didn't notice at all that I couldn't go because I would have to run over the child :)

I think a lot of the time people aren’t necessarily trying to cut into a queue, but don’t know the roads. I’m always finding myself in unfamiliar places with a queue in one lane tailing back, and me in another when the signs start to kick in telling me this lane is coming off and going somewhere else. I try to join the queue as quickly as I can, but I’m always met with people blocking the spaces to ‘punish’ me for skipping the queue.

Re emergency exemptions. There is no need to have lights/sirens activated to make use of an exemption under the RTA. The only requirement is that obeying the signal/sign/limit would hinder the use to which the vehicle is being put. In general, whilst not knowing specifics, that ambulance should have stopped at the lights.

There are too many scooters doing deliveries using L plates. A requirement that you should at least have a full license for the vehicle you are employed to drive would be an improvement.

Hi Ashley, I agree with one of your other contributors. As one who drove ambulances for forty one year, we were taught that in an emergency situation we could treat a red traffic light as a give way. But, we would be still held accountable if we caused a accident, we were told to reduce you speed, and approach with caution with both siren and blue light’s on. Other wise we should obey the Highway Code, it was a dispensation not a right.

Brill as always Ashley. Clip 5, 6 and 7 amaze me, so much bizarre driving from other drivers on just one outing by the looks of it😂 Also to add, the clip at 8:16 is a brilliant example of how correct speed is always essential. You are always one of the best advocates for planning ahead and dealing with stuff before it happens, rather than not planning and just reacting. In one of the few circumstances where all you really can do is react, your car's speed and your alertness is perfect, shown by how quickly you have your foot on the brake for the moped. This is why the "be able to stop in the distance you can see is clear" idea (which is always advocated for on this channel) is so vitally important to driving.

These delivery scooters are a blight. They have no interest in becoming licenced motorcyclists; rather, they just get the bare minimum CBT with no interest for their or anyone else's saftey. They will force the CBT to be changed in the end. As someone on two wheels, it makes me sick how many times a week I see these idiots causing no end of misery on our roads.

Parking on the pavement really gets up my back, maybe because I'm a wheelchair user and half the time I end up having to cross the road just to get past. I used to drive as part of my job, but your videos make me wonder if some people have even taken a lesson, very good channel and very informative 👍

Remember one Police programme they followed a driver undercutting, speeding, jumping lights for five miles.....they were only going to Tesco's. 😜

I'm always amazed that it is legal for a learner rider to be able to act as a delivery service. By definition, this is a rider who has not yet been able to show that they have reached a reasonable and safe standard of driving by having past a test. Not a guarantee of course, but it's at least some evidence. In the case of L-plate riders, they might not have had a minute of formal training. I don't know how this fits with insurance either; I assume that whoever employs these delivery riders makes sure that they have the correct business-related insurance. I wonder if anybody has ever investigated accident statistics among delivery riders?

One of those delivery shops opened across a pedestrian street from me, they all cycled from the door blind round the corners on the path. Only when I started videoing them and told them I was reporting to police did they stop. Keep it up

In all fairness it takes mad skills to pull off a wheelie on a bicycle.

I live near some of the areas in this video, and did my driving lessons on a lot of the same roads, and the delivery drivers really are lethal! I think a lot of the problem is that it's often someone who has just bought a scooter or bike, slapped an L plate on it and gone, without so much as a minute of formal training. It's so dangerous.

Creative interpretation of the traffic light by the cyclist at 7:41.

Lived in NE London for 2 decades and the last 5 years involved almost weekly near misses with suicidal Deliveroo/Just Eat delivery riders.

Turing right last year from the marina opposite the Coburg pub onto the dock road that goes to otterspool, I hung about for a split second to see which way a car , opposite me,coming down past the pub was going to turn. Then an Audi or Mercedes shot through the very red lights left to right at about 50. That was a very fortunate hesitation, and in the week we were up in Liverpool I saw a lot of very intimidating driving in menacing looking cars. There’s parts of London like that I guess ( don’t drive there anymore!) but Liverpool has lots of wide empty roads. And it’s fair share of nobheads! Safe driving ,Ashley

Your comment about 'flashers' is so true. Many years ago, I was driving along in lane 1 of a 3 lane dual carriageway, approaching a motorway junction, in my mini. An artic drove alongside me in lane 2. He must have been indicating left, as prep to move into lane 1. A car following me in lane 1 flashed to the lorry, the classic 'you're past me, you can move into my lane now'. However, the car clearly didn't take into account my presence in the lane alongside the lorry, and the lorry driver clearly hadn't remembered I was there, and I was at this point in his blind spot. The inevitable happened, and the lorry started to pull into my lane. Luckily, I was unhurt, but my car was a mess - it looked like someone had tried to open it along the side with a can-opener! It was a very scary moment, I did fear for my life at the time. Ever since, I have always been careful to use my own judgement as to when it's safe to move, and I myself will never flash, just simply slow down/yield, and allow the other driver to assess if they're safe, taking all factors into consideration.

That’s a very good point from the 1st clip as that he’d have jumped the lights anyway just to prove that his dangerous overtake actually did gain him some time but that normally never gets them anywhere

"people who flash have little perception of the whole situation" Waiting to turn across the oncoming lane into my driveway last week. Bus came and stopped at a bus stop, but it's rear was blocking most of my entrance so I just had to wait. Oncoming car started flashing to let me turn in and I had to point at the bus before they realised it was there. How does someone not register the presence of a double decker bus directly in front of them? 🤷 Edit: should clarify that the road is wide enough for other cars in both directions to get past if someone is stopped waiting to turn. So no one was getting blocked.

6:20 This is a great point. "Body language", or car positioning, is a good way to communicate with other drivers about what your intent it. Other drivers get to learn what slight vehicle movements or positioning variations may indicate that driver is intending on doing and you can make decisions based on them to help traffic flow. Even in the cases of those cars that came past, they would have known to get a wriggle on because you definitely were staying in that right lane for the lights ahead. 9:00 Same sort of message, how to read the other vehicles.

'Try and resist that temptation to teach them a lesson' good job I don't have Magneto's powers then (daydreamed that a lot) as most of them would be on top of walls etc or various mechanical failures would magically happen.

I think for mobile phone use it should be an instant ban, because you have to consciously make that poor choice and it's seen FAR too often.

Thank you for another great video, Ash. I keep learning new things I can get away with while driving! :)

Sunday morning, so time for a little tongue in cheek - Delivery riders in your area. Of course, you must give them priority, the pizza is getting cold. Why pass them at 1.5m, the customer ordered a super-sized American family one and expect it delivered in one piece. The wheelie over the bridge - the customer ordered hot wings! [soz Ash couldn't resist]

Clip 10 this episode was born. Brilliant compilation Ash 👌

In Clip 12 you gave the same response that I would have done. I used to beep a lot in the car but through watching your channel I think I'm calmer now than I used to be

I had someone flash to let me out at a junction on my bike the other day. There were several cars coming from the other direction, and I had no interest in trying to rush to get across. They waited for ages, to the point the driver behind was getting annoyed with them. Honestly, I appreciate motorists trying to help me out on my bike on busy roads and intersections, but the best way you can do that is drive predictably and carefully. Then I can sort myself out around you. (And no comment on some of the cycling in this video... I'll never understand people being so carefree with their own safety)

I need a dash cam, I saw a very similar situation to the delivery cyclist only yesterday in Sutton-in-Ashfield. But with a far more satisfying outcome. Cyclist flew past cars at lights to be at the front of queue (they had just turned green), pulled a wheely for a good 100 yards. Police car pulls up to the junction their about to pass, the cyclist jams its breaks on, comes out of the wheely, and almost in slow motion the back wheel slowly raises off the road, getting higher and higher off the ground and they flip over the handle bars and land directly in front of the Police.

Another great video. You should see the way some of the delivery drivers, in fact general drivers, behave around Skem on a Sunday night..

People who use their phones while driving should just be straight up banned from driving (Unless the phone is being used for a genuine emergency) and the police, should they witness a phone user, should have the power to issue a driving ban right there and then at the roadside. Gets them off the road as soon as possible.

That abulance should have stopped. But although the lights weren't on, there could be a patient in the back. Sometimes, the other paramedic might be standing or no seatbelt on to give first aid or assistance. I don't believe they're meant to do this, but it might explain why the ambulance didn't want to brake for the light as it changed.

Ashley . Caught driving while holding the phone in 2022 needs , auto instant ban , £3000 fine . Most of the drivers on your video are oblivious to others , or cannot see RED . I have a TT970 flip that stays in my pocket bluetoothed to my car nicely .. I passed the I A M 20yrs ago . Loved it .

Yesterday I was overtaken by three dirt bikes. One was centimetres away from my mirror...Two were popping wheelies...None of them had a Reg plate. I wish I had a dashcam it would have been a great addition to this compilation lol. Great video again as always mate 👍

I know you don't report people and I'm similar, but that S3 driving was so lethal (as you say) that it's worth reporting to try and change their behaviour through consequence, as they aren't the sort to come on KZfaq and watch driver education channels.

When I was young (16) I did work experience in an ambulance, not for emergencies but for patient transport, and when doing patient transport you obviously don't have your blues and twos on, but when you have a patient on board in a bed sometimes breaking hard can be problematic so I was told its sometimes better to not break sharply if you can avoid it. However, looking at the clip at 9:55 its clear the ambulance had clear time to slow down and no obstructions, such as a lorry, to obscure their view of the lights so I am with you that was a disgrace.

I reckon a small ban period from driving for using mobile phone. If you rely on your car for work it would be more of a detterent!

I passed my test in Huddersfield about a month ago (thanks in part to these videos) but also started a new job in Walton the next day. I'm dreading the day I end up in one of these videos. The road at 6:30 is where I work!

I like how you teach positive usage of the horn. It's something I do more now and has handled a couple of developing situations before they became an issue (like you described with the cyclist).

From a purely legal standpoint, the Silver Megane at 1:58 didn't cause any part of his vehicle to cross a Stop Line in order to re-route. The Juke, however, not only crossed a Stop Line but, by doing so, blocked the pedestrian crossing area marked by the studs.

regarding the ambulance clips: in the first, they may have been carrying a patient who didn't want jostled, but if that were so, they should have lit up the blues to pass the light. in the second, in my area, if they are going to light up, they light up coming out of the barn, and hit the end of the driveway with the lights and siren already on. makes it pretty clear if people need to help them out or not. addendum: of course, it looks like the ambulance management strategy in the UK is "have as many as you think you'll need" whereas here, it's a private company, and they do "use the fewest you think you can get away with" so that every time an ambulance responds to a call, the rest in the coverage area have to shift to try to cover the gaps.

by far, my fave content on youtube!

7:35 - loving those Disco lights on that 4x4!

Think it was clip 14 with the ambulance. That was what I would call a tactically perfect piece of driving. Absolutely 10 out of 10 for that. Everyone take note 👍👍👍

Great video as usual. As a long time driver (40+ yrs) I get a lot of good info from these videos. Especially as law and advice changes not to mention the ever increasing volume of traffic and the governments drive to reduce unemployment by encouraging more cyclists. (That was a joke BTW 😂 ). I do have one question: On new vehicles why are indicators generally becoming smaller and harder to see, especially if brake lights are on? I notice many German cars are using animated indicators whilst being highly visible seem to be a little bit distracting.

Ive spent a lot of time in Liverpool and drove around a lot of the city as a experienced driver when I had a job in the area but I have to say I wouldn’t have wanted to take my driving lessons and test there. Credit to all your students. I learned to drive in a small town in Leicestershire before I moved to Lincolnshire but I never had to go on duel carriageways or duel lane roads simply because we didn’t have them where I passed my test. It does make me wonder though how is the test fair when I managed to pass in a area with very small road a little traffic compared to a busy city like Liverpool.

Another great informative video, always learn good technique.👍👊

Clip 7, people reversing out onto roads really gets my goat. 🐐

Ashley's laugh should be classed as a hazard. Everytime I hear him laugh I feel the need to clear my lungs with a good laugh too haha. Amazing

I like your dashcam setup ,and a magic kodak button!

Once I finally get a dash cam sorted, I’ll unleash some some Isle of Wight lunacy, sadly missed the road rage and resultant crowbar pull 😂 ever over this way learn to play the banjo! A1 content as ever ash 👌

I had something similar when being let out from a junction on my motorbike. A lorry had pulled into the centre of the road to turn right but needed the extra space where I was sat waiting to turn right onto a main road. He flashed me to let me out but I did not go straight away as I had noticed that a car was pulling along their near side so I had to hang back for a second. The lorry driver did realise was I was doing and just waited a little longer but the lorry driver did have that brief look of "why are you not going?" before seeing what was happening XD

Ashley your Liverpool vids are giving me an idea of what to expect tomorrow 11.07.22, I'm a HGV driver and my places in the morning are Scunthorpe-Wakefield-Manchester then Liverpool, it'll be my first time in Liverpool (and Scunthorpe) but I now know to bring an extra set of eyes.

Regards the last point about not pulling out just because someone is flashing.... I don't always immediately pull out from a junction just because the car to my right is indicating in to the junction. As Ashley says, go off of the position, speed and other aspects of the car also. If they aren't slowing down, they're not 'indicating' that they are going to turn, despite the indicator light being on. I've had many occasions where someone is indicating left and they continue straight on. Not worth pulling out on them, wait a few seconds until they slow and begin to turn the wheels, then go.

11:19 good spot by the car on the left. She really was close to being taken out there. As a cyclist, it's important to not cross lights if you have any idea that the cars may suddenly move off. At least try and get eye contact first with the drivers. Often the ped (and cycle) lights are a guide to when can cross safely. Wait if they are not on green.

Here in Brighton & Hove, food delivery scooters are a nightmare. One thing that may improve the situation would be a change in the law, they would have to pass their test before being allowed to ride for a living. When you let the ambulance out of the station, did you "flash" him first?

Your reaction at the end clip was priceless :D

I like how you've highlighted flashing in the last clip. I've had a few times where someone in your position has been flashed and just emerged due to the flash while I've been that car coming the other way and had to brake very harshly to avoid an accident. Wishing more people would see this and examine the junction thoroughly on their own judgement rather than someone else's.

No emergency vehicles can only claim an exemption to red lights (to be treated as a give way sign) when on an emergency call. at all other times they must follow the same rules as everyone else.

The last clip, i'm not kidding i work on the same industrial estate as a Warburtons warehouse and sometimes when i've wanted to turn right back on to the main road to go home i've had Warburtons vans approaching the industrial estate and flash me out as if they're doing me a favour. I'm like "I can't go mate you're blocking my view from the road you've just come down, just turn into the road so i can see better".

Our traffic lights here in Oz stay on amber for twice as long as those in the UK. We also have advanced warning lights about 100m before the actual traffic lights which start flashing to warn drivers that the main traffic lights ahead are going to change.

Wow, what a collection! 😯 That Audi at 00:14 seconds in was horrendous.

Interesting question Ashley in Clip 13 about ambulances claiming exemptions without blue lights and sirens. There is no legal connection between claiming exemptions and using blue lights and sirens (which are themselves exemptions, other vehicles are prohibited from using them, but emergency vehicles are exempt from that prohibition). For each exemption an emergency vehicle claims, the driver must be able to reasonably justify that observing that prohibition would "be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for that (ambulance) purpose". Claiming an exemption without using blue lights and sirens is common for the police, for example an unmarked car following a suspect vehicle, and using the emergency equipment would draw their attention to the fact they're being followed. It's seldom justifiable for ambulance purposes, but one example could be they were transporting a patient in significant pain, in the driver could justify the exemption because avoiding firm braking for the traffic light would avoid the patient suffering additional discomfort.

Gets worse in Birmingham, where you have delivery riders on E-bikes that are effectively electric mopeds. Time and time again i've watched a rider zooming uphill on a bike and the pedals aren't moving. That's before you look at the generally woeful quality of drivers there. Being a lorry driver doing city runs is testing to say the least. Almost makes you miss the ease of sitting brain dead in lane 1 of the motorway (except the M6 between J4 and J10A) and not having to worry about anything more than traffic holdups.

The Emergency services still have to stop like anyone else; if and only if they have their lights and sirens on then a lights junction is treated as a give way by them and only them. 11:21 that was really well handled by your pupil there.

Turning right at traffic light junctions. You can fit two in and sometimes three etc. Years ago a friend of mine was on a Lambretta with his brother turning right at a big junction. The brother, riding pillion had a bit of cramp put his feet on the tarmac and did a stretch. My friend saw a gap shot off round the corner leaving his brother stood bow legged in the middle of the junction with drivers hooting at him.

A bit late to this one, but on the 'phone use whilst driving' point: Yes, penalty definitely needs to be increased. And really important to report, even if nothing is done. At least then you can ask the question, 'Why is nothing being done?' If no one reports nothing will ever change.

As far as I understand it. Emergency vehicles are only exempt from traffic laws when they have their blue lights on. Otherwise other road users won't get the warning. I remember seeing a police programme where they had to fit new blue lights to the cars because the speed cameras caught them at the slight instant when the flash was off, thus resulting in the police being done for speeding. That being said I do see a lot of ambulance drivers breaking traffic laws when not on an emergency. It annoys me if they shouldn't be exempt in this case.

A long time ago i decided to treat every other driver as though they are Baldrick.

9:28 amen! 6 points and £200 is nothing considering the chances of being caught is low

First class video as always, just on the point of mobile phone use it doesn't matter what the penalties seem to be as there seems to be less enforcement of this particular dangerous activity these days.

For mobile phone use (and for anything really), the punishment is irrelevant if people don't think they're going to get caught.

Great video ash, you get them all down in Liverpool 👍

I was driving an artic along a narrow road in west London yesterday which goes through a junction where just enough space is left to get between a traffic island and a row of parked cars as long as nobody blocks it, and there was an Amazon van just like the one in your opening clip, blocking the left side of the exit from a junction. A car could have got through the gap; I couldn't have done. He was on a double yellow line; not sure how long he'd been there. I had to go the wrong side of the island to get past him, it was either that or block the junction or the road behind me while waiting for him to come back and move.

On note of delivery riders... I find the 49/50cc scooters aren't too bad. my only main gripe is they sometimes like to gun it down the centreline when filtering instead of taking extra care to make sure they're not about to get cardoored but this isn't massively common. The biggest issue is when they're on e-bikes or e-scooters, 'cause they seem to think that because they don't need reg and tax that it's safe to go into oncoming traffic, weave between vehicles (including MOVING), jump lights at busy junctions, nearly getting themselves wiped out by turning traffic and I could add more things theyget shockingly wrong but I'll never finish this comment if I do!!

In that last view, I had a similar occurrence. I was waiting to turn right, onto a main road. Traffic was ok, but gappy. A car, approaching from my right, stopped to let me out. "Thank you," that's nice, but I had to wait for a gap in traffic flow from my left. Mr "nice" got agitated and continued on his journey, shaking his head from side to side and making aeroplane wing gestures with his arms as he passed, What did he want me to do, pull out and wait for another "nice" person to let me continue. No, I waited until there was safe gap both sides and then continued on my way. Everybody safe and no problems. Well, not for me, but I expect I was ridiculed relentlessly by "Mr nice guy." Ah, the pleasures of driving!

Clip 11 was John level anticipation skills. nice. Also, here's my plus 1 vote for an Ashley's Karaoke channel :)

The use of exemptions for emergency service vehicles is applied all the time. I was always taught exemptions should only be used when absolutely necessary (ie when travelling under normal road conditions act like any other vehicle on the road). However if you have a patient on board and a sudden jolt for braking hard could cause more harm than good (broken bones/spine) then going through a yellow/red light was normal practise.

clip 2 they should have waited for the green light. if only we were allowed to proceed on a red after stopping if it is safe to do so. too many lights are poorly timed when no traffic is about.

I'm a car delivery driver in an extremely crampt, densely populated university city and due to most roads being 1 way and only just big enough to fit an SUV down, it is a constant 24/7 war between moped delivery drivers and everyone else. I see about a half-dozen close near misses every few hours on shift. I'm not a perfect driver by any means, but you get hardened in the fires of battle on the road here

I'm in Manchester and I've noticed a definite drop in people's driving standards in the last couple of years. Everyone's in a mad rush.

Everywhere you go the roads are an absolute joke, with annual casualties in the hundreds of thousands and KSI in the tens of thousands. I'm starting to think we should have more regular PSA's and introduce mandatory, periodic re-testing for driving licenses. Or better yet, pedestrianise city centres and invest in public transport. It's just so frustrating that this "f*** you, got mine" attitude continues to cause problems year after year with nothing being done about it. 17-year-old kid on a moped got killed near where I live the other day, by some moron in a 4x4 who decided to overtake on a blind bend, for what? This is costing lives and it simply should not be happening.

Interesting with clip 14 that the ambulance didn't use its lights etc. to emerge, unless it was just very lucky timing that they got a call straight after

Unrelated question about 13:00, if your traveling in the opposite direction of the silver car and need to turn right, how would you check for oncoming traffic? I get that at this particular corner junction in the video you may be able to see around the bend, but I’ve seen other junctions where beyond the corner is not visible, and I just don’t find them confusing.

An additional comment. Can we just outright ban drivers who use their phones? Or, at the very least, require them to retake their driving test. They are bloody dangerous.

10:00 Emergency services can't. The reason they have a steady burn blue LED on the rear when on a blue light run is so the speed camera control room can see that this is the case. The speed / traffic light camera will sometimes take a picture during the split second when the LED emergency light bar is switching between left and right light units, resulting in it looking like there aren't any lights on.