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Nov 02, 2022
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Road maintenance workers across Scotland are being given bodycams and alarms to help them deal with dangerous and abusive drivers.
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Highways operator Bear Scotland said its workers risked injury and even death when unauthorised vehicles drove into their coned-off work sites.
This can happen when drivers jumped red lights or tried to race through traffic management setups, it said.
The firm said their workers also faced verbal and physical abuse from drivers.
One worker even reported being hit by a bottle of urine that was thrown from a moving car.
Bear Scotland has now put in place systems to protect the safety of its workers including CCTV, bodycams, dashcams and incursion alarms.
Sandra Wilson, the firm's health, safety, and risk manager, said using such technology would allow them to provide police with evidence where necessary.
"We hope that, if the public is increasingly aware these measures are in place, it will deter them from taking risks around roadworks and playing Russian roulette with workers' lives," she said.
In the past year the firm recorded 18 "incursions" - cases of unauthorised vehicles driving into its coned-off work sites.
They reported 12 of the motorists to police, several were charged including a drunk-driver and a driver who tested positive for cocaine.
Two people were left seriously injured as a result of the incursions.
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