A driver has apologised after he went through a red light 1.2 seconds too late, which he believed was due to letting an ambulance pass. Retired Frank Wallington, of Walsall, was driving home after attending his cousin's funeral in Long Bennington when he said he saw an ambulance with flashing blue lights approaching.
He claimed he allowed the ambulance to pass and thought nothing more of it until he received a notice that he had gone through the traffic light junction at Cropwell Road on the A52 after they had changed red. The 76-year-old said he remembered slowing down to let an ambulance pass during the two hour journey, and, after seeing the image of his car going through a red light behind an ambulance, thought this was that incident.
However, ANPR evidence has since shown that the ambulance photographed was not fitted with emergency blue lights and that Mr Wallington's recollection of letting an ambulance pass was actually a completely separate event, with the ambulance in the photograph of him going through the lights being a coincidence. Mr Wallington explained: "We knew that on our long journey back from Long Bennington that on our journey home that we had allowed an ambulance through to pass us.
