An “extremely dangerous” smart motorway outage that campaigners say puts drivers at risk is due this weekend as National Highways was accused of playing “Russian roulette” with people’s lives.
The Dynac system, which controls overhead gantries and signs on most smart motorways, will be suspended on Saturday from 10:30pm into the early hours of Sunday morning, LBC has learned.
The last time this happened was in October due to a “glitch”, and lasted for 7 hours.
The planned outage is due to a need from the National Highways to reset the technology used on smart motorways.
While this work takes place, many signs and signals cannot be updated across most of the UK, including Yorkshire, the North East, North West, Midlands and South West regions.
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