THE EARL OF HARROWBYasked Her Majesty's Government, in view of the many fatal accidents occurring from invisible dips on roads which appear clear, whether the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation will institute signs specific to such cases both on major and minor roads.
THE EARL OF GOSFORDAlthough there is no specific sign designed to give warning of invisible dips in roads, the new double white lines authorised by the Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations, 1959, can be used not only to give warning but to make it an offence to cross the crown of the road on the approach to an invisible dip, and on narrow roads the new broken warning line may be used. My right honourable friend the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation considers that these markings offer as effective a warning in such conditions as would a specific roadside sign, and are to be preferred to individual signs because they give a simple and uniform warning that a driver is approaching a danger spot.
House adjourned at half past seven o'clock.