An e-petition has been opened to lobby the Government to introduce a law to protect people working on the side of the road, such as vehicle recovery/rescue services and the emergency services.
The petition is part of the Slow Down, Move Over campaign which is aiming to raise awareness of the dangers roadside workers face on a daily basis. The campaign says that numerous people are killed or seriously injured on our hard shoulders each year as the result of collisions involving stationary vehicles.
Click here to sign the petition.
It’s all well and good asking drivers to move to the right in order to facilitate emergency vehicles to drive along the hard shoulder.
This is no doubt as a response to allowing normal vehicles including HGVs to drive as of a norm along the hard shoulder. Something which is being examined at the moment in time.
Otherwise there is no way that an emergency vehicle can get to an incident at all.
bob craven Lancs
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