DRIVERS have been warned mobile road cameras will enforce speed limits of 50mph to protect workers making improvements to a stretches of a trunk road.

The temporary speed limits have been set up along sections of the A19, at the Chester Road Interchange and Hangman's Lane Over Bridge, near Sunderland.

A Highways Agency spokesman said: "There will be two clearly posted camera enforcement signs in each direction along the stretch of road where enforcement is taking place, in addition to 50mph repeater signs.

"With all the warnings, there is no excuse for drivers to endanger the lives of workers doing their job by exceeding the speed limit.

"These limits are imposed to ensure everyone's safety while the work is carried out, not to catch drivers out."

It is a maximum speed limit, which is applicable to all road users 24 hours a day.

Between 2002 and 2004, eight road workers were killed and 56 injured on Highways Agency roads.