Political parties are being urged to commit to the "lifesaving" choice of scrapping all "smart" motorways nearly five years after the "needless" death of two men on a stretch of the MI in Yorkshire.
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There were 397 incidents when the motorway network lost power, which makes it difficult to detect when a car breaks down and can trap drivers in a live lane, from June 2022 to February 2024.
Before June 2019, Claire Mercer had no idea what a smart motorway was. Neither, she thinks, did her husband Jason. Doubly sad that he should be killed by a truck while stopped on a smart motorway stretch of the M1 near Sheffield with no hard shoulder.
A car was left like a sitting duck after breaking down on a lane on the southbound M6 on Jan 19, leaving the vehicle stranded on an inside lane which used to be a hard shoulder.