The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that highway officials in Massachusetts are setting up seven-foot-tall by 10-foot-wide screens
made of piping and vinyl material at accident sites to keep passing drivers from slowing to stare, thus moving traffic along. The paper said the screens have been in use since late last year.
According to the Globe, “State Department of Transportation spokesman John Carlisle said that some emergency response vehicles are equipped with sets of three screens, and that 27 sets are in use statewide. Carlisle said the screens, which were assembled by the department, are employed mainly in Eastern Massachusetts, where there are more roadways and greater congestion.”
A set of screens costs approximately $1,400, the paper said.
The Globe said similar screens are already used in The Netherlands and that a regional agency in the United Kingdom plans to try the screens