#5067

Not the A11 but road markings are involved.

#5068

They should know better than that when we’ve got Junior Trainee Detective Zeal on the case. With his history of traffic duty, he’ll have this one licked in no time.

#5069

But to an untrained eye, did someone redraw a carriageway, so a car ended up crossing over and into oncoming traffic?

#5070

There’s a Steven King story where someone gets a job on road construction in order to lure his victim off the road and into a specially dug pit in order to bump him off. Given that, the cans of paint and the general chat around road markings, I’m going to guess it all has something to do with some kind of frozen stabbing implement?

#5071

This is very close, boothy.

#5072

Aha. Well my second idea is that someone redrew a stop line to be slightly ahead of where it would be, so a car stopped at it ends up in the line of oncoming traffic.

#5073

Bridge? Mountainside hairpin?

#5074

Hairpin near water.

Any ideas who might have done it and why?

#5075

Was it the person contracted to repaint the lines or was it illegal tampering?

#5076

I think boothy I should probably leave this to the team now we’ve established it’s to do with traffic - best to spread the knowledge in case I’m off sick next time someone has to run a speed trap.

Obviously, goes without saying that I’ve already solved it :slight_smile:

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#5078

Illegal tampering.

#5079

Was there nimbyism involved, chief?

#5080

No, lad.

#5081

Traffic noise ruining the tranquility of the Lake House?

#5082

Noise wasn’t really the issue.

#5083

Was this a heavily used road, or only by a very small group of people who needed access?

I suppose I’m getting at whether this was targeted at a particular victim.

#5084

It wasn’t targeted at a particular person. It was a fairly busy road.

#5085

Oh, is this the road by the river that we’ve been getting the reports of nighttime drag racing happening on?

#5086

This smacks of the Green Guerillas, boss.

Trying to cause a 33-car pile up?