101 actually works!
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I was driving home up the M1 last night when I notice a fairly large patch of debris in lane 1 and 2, nothing big, just chunks of fairly thin wood, but still enough that if you hadn't seen it approaching I could well imagine causing someone to swerve, maybe leading to a crash.
As it didn't appear immediately lethal I didn't want to ring 999, so thought I'd try 101 and lo and behold it actually connected from my mobile which I half expected not to work. I was connected to Derbyshire Police within a couple of minutes and the operator took all the details including the marker post which was helpfully positioned about 200 yards after the debris. She said she'd let the Highways Agency know so they could go get it sorted (guess they aren't called Traffic Wombles for nothing
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Just thought I'd share in case anyone else ever finds it useful!
As it didn't appear immediately lethal I didn't want to ring 999, so thought I'd try 101 and lo and behold it actually connected from my mobile which I half expected not to work. I was connected to Derbyshire Police within a couple of minutes and the operator took all the details including the marker post which was helpfully positioned about 200 yards after the debris. She said she'd let the Highways Agency know so they could go get it sorted (guess they aren't called Traffic Wombles for nothing
)Just thought I'd share in case anyone else ever finds it useful!
I used it a few weeks ago to get the police to close a lane of a dual carriageway while loading a broken down van onto a recovery truck. Worked well as I wouldn't have wanted to phone 999.
However I tried again recently to report some debris and the Bedfordshire police system has a 'press 1 for...' system. Which I can't do from my phone hands free!
However I tried again recently to report some debris and the Bedfordshire police system has a 'press 1 for...' system. Which I can't do from my phone hands free!
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