Just eight people are monitoring the 450 'smart motorway' cameras within the Yorkshire and North East region, a court has heard.
The AA president Edmund King today stated the risk of death on the new stretches of motorway would be reduced with more emergency laybys and questioned 'the risk of having only eight people watching the cameras' in the North East.
It comes as Highways England was today referred to the Crown Prosecution Service where it could face manslaughter charges for the death of Nargis Begum, 62, on a so-called 'smart motorway'.
The grandmother-of-nine died when another car smashed into her stationary Nissan Qashqai 'at 90mph', according to one witness, after it broke down on a section of the M1 with no hard shoulder.