UPDATE: The lights are reportedly working again. 

Drivers in Basingstoke are being urged to be careful after issues with the traffic lights on one of the town's junctions.

The junction lights, located on Beggarwood Lane and Winchester Road were reported to all be showing as green, confusing passing traffic and causing several near misses with traffic crossing Winchester Road when turning to and from Beggarwood Lane.

The issue has been reported to the county council, but is not thought to have been fixed yet.

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A spokesperson from Hampshire County Council said: "While our remote systems are not detecting an issue, we have arranged for an engineer to visit the site this afternoon (Thursday, March 14)."

Problems can be reported to Hampshire County Council at hants.gov.uk/transport/roadmaintenance/roadproblems