Craig, I know you asked to Tom's thoughts but with my experience of driving an ambulance i thought i might be able to help answer your question. As part of our training we were taught us to ask ourselves several questions after each blue light drive, one of which was "did i cause anyone to do anything that they didn't want to do?" (in reality i stopped asking myself the questions as soon as i was let loose on the road) If you pull through a red light to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle on blue lights you do so through choice/at your own risk. If you get "t-boned" by a car as you go through a red light, it'd be your fault. I think you'd have to be unlucky to get a fine/points (as the camera flashed the resulting photo would show the ambulance and we're given special treatment, to a point, to allow us to go through red lights) but we'd need a police bod to clarify that. On the other hand if you don't get out of the way the language of the ambulance crew would probably be as blue as the lights.... ;)