Engineers were forced to limit traffic speeds to 60mph as they worked to identify and resolve the fault, which caused the stopped vehicle detection radar to shut down across vast areas of the country.
Engineers were forced to limit traffic speeds to 60mph as they worked to identify and resolve the fault, which caused the stopped vehicle detection radar to shut down across vast areas of the country A recent freedom of information request by Panorama revealed 174 power outages affecting vital smart motorway safety equipment in the six months leading to February 2024.
‘We know that many of the deaths on smart motorways occur when lorries, which are limited to speeds of up to 60mph, hit stationary vehicles stuck in live lanes.’ She added that imposing a 60mph speed limit during this latest technology failing would not have prevented most of the deaths that occur when the safety of the hard shoulder is removed.