M62 - Your Local History
A lot of finds were uncovered during the archaeological evaluation carried out for the M62 Junction 6 Improvement scheme so we thought it would be nice to provide an interactive website so you can see what we found.
Better information for your journey
The National Traffic Control Centre collects real-time information on road conditions
Lane Hog!
John Stapleton looks into why people Lane Hog and what effects it has on the driver hogging the lane and other road users.
Educating tomorrow's drivers
See how we are driving through key messages about safety on our network for the drivers of tomorrow.
Meet the Ancestors
Find out about the history of roads and the work the Agency does to preserve archaeological remains.
See when traffic will be lightest
Our traffic forecaster can help get you there quicker
Just a Stones Throw and Throwing It all Away
The “Just A Stones Throw” and “Throwing It All Away” campaigns are part of the Safety Toolkit and are specifically designed for use by schools.
As evenings grow lighter and particularly during the school holidays reports of incidences of young people dropping objects from road bridges increase, with considerable risk of injury to the drivers travelling on the road below should their vehicles be hit.
Young people are unaware of the effects on an object’s mass and acceleration due to gravity to its weight when the object strikes a moving vehicle, often dropped from a bridge 30m above the road. The small, seemingly harmless pebble becomes the equivalent of a stack of bricks on impact and damage is considerable, possibly fatal.
The reality of a such a fatal accident occurred when a brick was lobbed from a bridge over the M3 in 2003 and passed through the windscreen of an HGV killing the driver Micky Little.
"Just A Stones Throw" is aimed at the 9-11 years age group and explains the science of what will happen – it carries the important message that “Your Actions Have Consequences” and encourages pupils to think before they act. It is encouraging sensible citizenship.
“Throwing It All Away is designed to be part of the PSHE/Citizenship curriculum and looks at the consequences of a teasing game that goes wrong. The game is reflected in an audio story and has associated activities that link up with the socio-legal consequences of throwing objects from bridges. It has a full range of teaching resources involving role play, debate, review of the media and group discussion.
Both resources have already been fully tested and evaluated by pupils and teachers.
