IN Justifiable concern is growing over the motorway safety barriers
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following the tragic circumstances of the M4 'cross-over' accident in June when four members of the Von Kotze family and nine others died.
The family is to sue the Department of Transport claiming that the barrier was too low to be effectual.
This tragedy has cast a shadow on road barriers throughout Britain and is a reminder to the Government and the motoring organisationss that such barriers are practically non-existent in Scotland_ South of the border almost 99% of the central reservations on the motorways are equipped with safety barriers. This compares quite drastically with Scotland's 19%.
The Scottish Office explained that the reason for this disparity is that the relatively low volume of traffic on motorways in Scotland does not justify paying .n4,000 per mile to install these barriers. They do admit, however, that all newlybuilt motorways and dual carriageways will be fitted with them.
Whereas the Scottish Office goes by the amount of traffic volume before installing barriers the Department of Transport claims that all motorways in England and Wales have these as a matter of course.
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