Motorists have been warned they could face an avalanche of fines when councils are given powers to enforce yellow box road junctions, the RAC has said.
Local authorities will be able to issue penalty charge notices from June 1 when they can take over enforcement powers from police. At the moment, only in London and Cardiff do councils have the yellow box powers. But from June, all councils will be able to apply for the authority to enforce moving traffic offences including going through 'no entry' signs or those signs saying no left or right turns, WalesOnline reports.
For the RAC, it is the yellow box enforcement that could lead to thousands of motorists getting fines. They say many of the junctions have design flaws that see motorists stuck on the hatching through no fault of their own, while others are maintained badly and it can be hard to see where the yellow lines begin and end.
