The Highways Agency is introducing pictograms on to some of its overhead electronic signs, in a bid to make roads safer.
Displays on around 20 signs on the M23 northern section in Surrey and around London’s Gatwick Airport will show pictures as well as words.
The HA said these designs – based on familiar road signs for accidents, queues, snow and ice, high winds and skid risk – were easy for drivers to read and to react accordingly to.
Derek Turner, the HA’s network operations director, said: ‘The programme is being rolled out across the country during the year.’
A further 30 signs will be upgraded on the M3 and A3(M) in Hampshire as part of the national roll-out of pictograms.
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