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If you are going through the tail end of amber it means you were probably approaching the junction too quickly.
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/light-signals-controlling-traffic.html
RED AND AMBER also means ‘Stop’. Do not pass through or start until GREEN shows
AMBER means ‘Stop’ at the stop line. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident
dancing james-
On amber lights, I'm not changing that part of my cycling. I am 100% sure I'll get in more accidents by being fully aligned with the highway code on it as I'll be stopping when people don't expect me to (even if they should expect me to). Do you agree with this thought process?
It doesn't help that I ride fixed a lot (not today though) and people get even more caught out by the lack of freewheeling when braking.
The big thing that was dangerous here was not me going through amber, it was whether the cycling of lights is variable. If not, the bin lorry blasted through on red a good 20 seconds after it would have gone red for him.
If they are variable, this seems to be asking for trouble. I should have seen that the green right turn arrow was not illuminated, but as I assumed it always was at the end of that phase, I got myself into a sticky situation.
I'm not sure which of these scenarios is what happened.
Scrabble
Is it not "stop if safe to do so"? Was told that once I think - not sure how true and too lazy to look up!