COMMUNICATIONS giant BT has been ordered to pay £2,993.75 after pleading guilty to failing to provide adequate protection to members of the public while carrying out roadworks in South Cumbria.
The offence related to a set of roadworks in Burneside Road, Kendal, on September 19 of last year.
BT admitted failing to ensure that the works were adequately guarded and failing to ensure that such traffic signs as were reasonably required and where necessary operated for the guidance or direction of persons using the street were placed, maintained and operated, and failing to have regard to the needs of people with a disability in executing those street works.
The prosecution, at Kendal Magistrates' Court yesterday, was brought by Cumbria County Council.
BT pleaded guilty to the offence and was fined £2,400, ordered to pay a £120 victim surcharge and £473.75 in court costs.
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