A huge change has come to some motorways in Merseyside after police "struggled" to reach an "individual in crisis" on a motorway bridge.
This week Wirral motorists may notice a change along the M53 as new "location signs" have been introduced to the borough. The signs - part of a joint project between Merseyside Police and Wirral Council - can be spotted on the bridges over the M53 motorway alongside a Samaritans sign and display a number unique to that bridge.
The signs have been implemented to allow police to access people "in crisis" more quickly, as police have previously struggled to locate a member of the public in a crisis state due to the similarity of each bridge along the motorway. Explaining the reasoning behind the new initiative, Merseyside Police's Sergeant Haydn Ward spoke about his own experiences when trying to locate a person in crisis.
