The phrase "alert motorists" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to notifying or warning drivers about a specific situation, such as road conditions or hazards.
Example: "The construction signs were placed along the highway to alert motorists of the upcoming detour."
Alternatives: "warn drivers" or "notify motorists".
The system supplements the Inform signs that alert motorists to delays between specific exits.
The school's Media Lab proposed smart parking places that would alert motorists to reduced parking rates and attract them to underused lots.
The Department of Transportation suspended construction on major routes coming out of New York to avoid traffic jams, and used their computerized signs to alert motorists to avoid New York.
While there are flashing signs to alert motorists of pedestrians, not all drivers will be careful.
It alerts motorists to speed traps, surveillance cameras, and "other roadway hazards".
All the State Department of Transportation has done is place new signs on existing shoulders of major state highways to "protect" bicyclists by "alerting" motorists that they have to now share.
Alerts for Traffic Jams Will Be a Mouse Click Away The state Department of Transportation will soon make a free service available that alerts motorists to traffic problems through e-mail messages.
I have yet to see any publicity alerting motorists that they can legally cross double-white lines when it's safe to do so in order to allow a metre space between the vehicle and a cyclist.
A nice, bright rear LED and reflectors on your wheels are probably the most important parts of alerting motorists to your presence.
"It gives you the speed and distance of rear-approaching vehicles, and alerts motorists to your position via increasingly frequent light pulses," said Franz Struwig.
Photo: In the destroyed Bosnian city of Mostar, a street sign alerting motorists to school-children still stands, riddled with bullet holes.
