01-01-13, 02:46 PM
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Re: Incident screens to prevent accident rubbernecking - will they work?
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Originally Posted by keith_d
I'm a bit late into this discussion, but then I think that's going to be the problem with these screens.
The UK has around 3500 miles of motorway and about 100 sets of screens which can't be distributed evenly around that network. To keep it simple I'll assume they have to travel 25 miles to an incident.
Assuming the first police unit on the scene requests the screens when they arrive (around 10 minutes) and they are dispatched immediately (yeah, right!) by trailer at 50mph, that's somewhere around 40 minutes to reach the incident. By which time the opposite carriage way will already be jammed solid.
So, IMO, a complete waste of resources.
Keith.
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We should have a poll
I vote Keith d 
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