In the presented situation, does the illuminated light allow you to go beyond the traffic lights?
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Correct answer
NO
Explanation
In the photo, you have stopped in front of a pedestrian crossing and a junction, and the traffic lights are showing red and amber at the same time. Such a signal does not permit you to go beyond the traffic lights - it only announces that green will come on in a moment. The answer is: no.
The Regulation on road signs and signals states that red and amber signals shown at the same time mean a ban on going beyond the traffic lights and that the green signal will come on in a moment. Moving off already on red and amber is a common mistake: a vehicle from the intersecting road that entered the junction at the end of amber may not have left it yet. You put the car in gear, but you only move off on green, after looking left and right.
Legal basis: § 95 para. 1 point 4 of the Regulation on road signs and signals