A smart motorway safety system failed across much of England on Wednesday, National Highways has admitted.
The Dynac system – which includes signs, signals and stopped vehicle detection technology – stopped working at around 8.30am on Wednesday.
National Highways operational control director Andrew Page-Dove said: “We are urgently investigating an unplanned outage of our traffic management system that took place this morning. Mr King said: “So-called smart motorways cease to be smart when the technology fails, and drivers in dangerous live-lane situations are left as sitting ducks.“That’s clearly not the case with the outage today.”
The PA news agency understands there were no major incidents or serious congestion during the incident.The latest fault came as the Government was urged to end the use of all-lane running smart motorways, which do not have a hard shoulder.
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