- Vehicle detection technology is flagging only 62 percent of stranded traffic
- The SVD system is ‘woefully inadequate’ and drivers are often ‘sitting ducks’
- Smart motorways with no hard shoulder leaves drivers marooned in live traffic
Life-saving technology on smart motorways is failing to detect nearly four in ten broken-down vehicles within a time limit considered safe by road bosses.
A shocking internal report found stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology is flagging only 62 per cent of those stranded in live traffic within 20 seconds.
This is the time frame deemed acceptable by the roads agency National Highways, according to the unpublished 2019 report, obtained by the Daily Mail under the Freedom of Information Act.
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