Lollipop men and women are to have miniature cameras mounted in their sticks as part of one council’s fight against bad driving, it has been reported.
The cameras are to be fitted by Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire into lollipops – one facing forwards, and the other backwards.
The photographs will then be used as evidence against drivers in a prosecution.
Lollipop patrols have the same power as a red light and there have been complaints made against drivers who fail to stop or hurl abuse.
It has been estimated that there were 1,400 incidents against lollipop patrols last year.
These range from aggressive behaviour to drivers ignoring them.
If drivers fail to stop they can end up with points on their licence.
Vera Irving has been helping children across the road in Huddersfield for 20 years and told the BBC recently she had an experience that left her ‘sick to the stomach’.
‘The car had stopped. The children stepped out, the mum stepped out. Then the lady just carried on, nearly knocked the children down,’ she said.
‘If the mum hadn't pulled the children out of the way, they'd have got run over, they'd have got killed.’
The new system of placing cameras in the lollipops has been designed by Oxfordshire company Routesafe Limited.
Captain Gatso, Campaigns Director of Motorists Against Detection, said: 'It's just another tool to hammer decent folk.'
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