Right or Wrong - is it just black and white?

Sorry I'm late, it's been sunny.

Anyway I'm not going to be much help as I no longer work for the CC but I seem to remember that there are regulations or perhaps a code of conduct for traffic signalling road works. However I doubt that many contractors have read and understood them/it and I share your collective pain.

So my apologies but having been away from LCC now for 18 months I'm struggling to come up with a name there that I could email and ask for a definitive answer. I will email some people I worked with though and see if they can help but they aren't in road works type engineering jobs . . .

we of the cornish hole digging fraternity have always been told that you cannot have temporary traffic lights over a distance of more than 300 meters and under no circumstances should fred have been directing traffic let alone have a digger reverse into traffic without putting lights on "all red "first

interesting. Other halfs dad works at a scrap yard. Yesterday a tractor/trailer carrying an old combine swerved on the way in and the combine slipped off the side. Cops were called (well PSCOs). The lads doing the roadworks tried to get it back on with a JCB but the combine was too heavy (6 tonne). One of the guys from the scrap yard, said we've got a forklift that'll lift it but obviously it's got no insurance or tax for the road. Coppers said fine, just get the road cleared'. Wonder if they would stand by that if there was an accident in the meantime involving the forklift?

Only designated PCSOs. But anyone can direct traffic, the legal powers to stop a vehicle only make it an offence where someone fails to comply, and there is no specific offence for directing traffic when not authorised. Some odd looks maybe.

If they have been properly installed then you can be dealt with as per any other red light offence - 3 points & sixty quid.