Hazard warning after safe cornering

Imagine my surprise on Friday morning to be flagged down by four police officers with a police car upon entering Bleasby from Fiskerton.

It appeared that the car I had seen parked on the verge of the sharp corner before Bleasby was, in fact, an unmarked car with two more officers monitoring traffic.

Without a speed gun they had judged that I was driving fast for the conditions, even though I was some 10mph under the 60mph speed limit and slowed very significantly for the bend.

I was told that the road I had just driven along was considered icy and therefore should take care.

This was 9.30am, it was sunny, the road was dry and my car indicated the temperature was 3º C.

This begs two questions:

1. If there was a hazard would their job have been better served by warning cars before they reached it?

2. Is this the health and safety answer to the council not salting the road and will we see more of this?

I would assume that the cost of six police officers and two cars, who should have priorities other than warning people after a hazard, would be significantly more expensive than actually salting the road.

Or maybe this is some perverse public servant departmental budget problem — the police have money but the council does not.

Maybe a sign stating possible hazardous road conditions or possible black ice before the hazard would be cheaper and more sensible.