Lincolnshire PCC looks at using Acusensus AI cameras to improve road safety
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner says he’s thinking about using Acusensus’s Heads-Up cameras to spot distracted drivers and those not wearing a seatbelt on his county’s road. The BBC reports Marc Jones will discuss the idea at the East of England and East Midlands Road Safety Summit this week. The Acusensus Artificial Intelligence technology detects […]
Winvic awarded place on Lincolnshire Highways Works framework
Multi-sector construction and civil engineering projects contractor Winvic Construction has won a new contract with Lincolnshire County Council to deliver highways works across the county. The “General Works” Lot is for schemes involving the creation of new infrastructure assets as well as infrastructure improvements. Works to be undertaken on A and B class roads in […]
Highway maintenance cuts in Lincolnshire raised with Boris Johnson
Large cuts to Lincolnshire’s highways budget were raised with Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday, during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons. Lincoln MP Karl McCartney spoke to raise the fact that maintenance money was cut by more than £12m. In July, Lincolnshire County Council warned that our area’s crumbling roads could get worse if these […]
County sees zero fatalities so far this year
Road safety officials in Lincolnshire are cautiously welcoming statistics that show nobody has been killed on the county’s roads so far this year. They say that usually around 50 people a year suffer a road-related death in the county, and by the end of February last year five had lost their lives. News website TheLinc […]
Lincs police launch speed enforcement campaign
Drivers in Lincolnshire are being warned that an increased number of police are being deployed to focus on speeding on the county’s roads. The county’s police force says its using marked and unmarked cars and bikes carrying out speed checks as part of a campaign using both mobile and fixed safety cameras. They say this […]
