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i dont know if ive been caught by one any way on with the story, i was at a crossroads in west london turning right and the lights were green so i stayed at the lights because the right hand lane was busy full of traffic so when the lights turned green again a lady behind me beeped me so i went but there was still traffic in the right lane so i was stuck on the yellow box but i was on near the right hand turning so i wasnt blocking the traffice going straight ahead i was blocking the the traffic trying to turn left in the same lane i was trying to turn right but i think the lights were still green for me not to sure but no traffic from the other road was going so i persumed stayed green, please excuse me if you dont understand im rubbish at writing

Try breaking it up into individual sentences. You wouldn't blurt that whole paragraph out in one breathe, stick a full stop in and start a new sentence with a capital letter wherever you would take a breath if you were speaking it rather than writing it.

However, you do appear to find yourself in an alarming number of situations where you think you may have been snapped by a camera or something. Has anything ever come of any of them after you've posted your story here?

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yeah i get really paranoid alot if i THINK ive been done by a camera

yeah i get really paranoid alot if i think ive been done by a camera, if ive been caught how long does it take for them to send it to me

A lot of yellow box junctions have been painted incorrectly.

There's some information here:
http://moneyboxjunction.wordpress.com/

And waay too much information in the Parking Tickets forum at PePiPoo:
http://forums.pepipoo.com/

But if you were turning right and were only blocked by oncoming traffic... is that not the time you are allowed to wait in a yellow box?

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Andrew.

I always thought that if you were turning right you can enter a box junction. There is one on the washway rd in sale (manchester) which is within two feet of the white line so if you can`t enter you would en up sitting there for ages as the filter on the lights isn`t always on

As far as I am aware you are allowed to enter a "Yellow Box Jct" only if you are turning right and your exit is blocked by vehicles turning left (I would check the Highway Code) for clarification.

Normally on box junctions you are breaking the the law if you enter the box jct. when your exit is not clear (even if the lights are on green) except when turning right.

You (by law) must be able to exit the box "Completely" when you enter it so you mustn,t have part of your vehicle straddling the box when you exit the other side.

As for the prosecution notice they are normally sent out within 14 to 21 days.

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The highway code has the law on a box junction wrong.
The offence involves both entering and stopping while your exit is blocked by other vehicles.
You can wait in the box if you are turning right and your exit is blocked by oncoming vehicles, that is vehicles on the same road as you coming the other way. If the road you wish tu turn in to is 'full' then entering and stopping in the box would be illegal.

To understand it all you would really need to read the law on it. About 5 times.

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Andrew.

That's why she beeped you, she wanted you to move forward.

A bit impatient, I wouldn't normally beep somebody who did this myself, unless it meant we were never going to get to turn right I guess, a little toot though, not a beeeeeeeep.

There's a junction near me and many people don't go far enough forward when turning right as they obviously think they're not allowed to stop in the box junction, but if they don't only one car can turn right per green light phase.