I've had the same happen to me wayne except i was in town(early morning)
Theres a set of lights I pass on the way to work and TBH there slow at the best of times. But one morning just as I turned on to the road that the lights are positioned on they went red. I sat there for at least ten mins before having to drive through them, shitting my self.
Just as I went through 2 more cars pulled up, dunno how they got on.
I hate they days were it's like every light u come to goes red, usually when ur running late!