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MOTORWAY MADNESS • The scene — A57 Worksop to Sheffield.
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The time — 09.00hrs. Approaching the MI to go northbound I turned down Derek Jameson's patter and turned on the CB. The first words I heard were from a lorry driver talking to his mate — "Watch your front door Mick, the council are playing silly buggers again!"
I joined the motorway and after a mile or so the reason for this conversation became apparent. Parked on the hard shoulder by the M18 slip road was a council lorry. Standing by it were two orange-clad lemmings who, on seeing a gap in the traffic, scurried across the motorway to the central reservation, picked up a large roadworks sign and prepared to return, carrying the sign between them. Two other workers, not so quick off the mark, prepared to make the same journey.
There were road signs laying in the central reservation for half a mile or more. How many journeys those men had to make, I don't know, but I didn't envy them their task.
If overloading, speeding or misusing tachographs are classed as dangerous, potentiallylethal offences, in what category, wonder, does one place the action of these workers?
Are they to be prosecuted? Are their bosses to be prosecuted for knowingly allowing their men to endanger their lives and the lives of others? If not, why not?
Brian Mann, Sudbury, Suffolk.