A widow who believes Highways England should be prosecuted over the death of her husband on a smart motorway is today staging a protest outside a police headquarters.
Claire Mercer, 44, said future deaths will be blood on the hands of the people running our roads as she prepared to mark what would have been her husband Jason s 46th birthday by placing a giant screen outside South Yorkshire Police s HQ.
Mr Mercer died on a stretch of the M1 with no hard shoulder - along with another motorist, Alexandru Murgeanu - when a lorry ploughed into them in June 2019.
At an inquest in January, Sheffield coroner David Urpeth said: I find, as a finding of fact, it is clear a lack of hard shoulder contributed to this tragedy.
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Tributes pour in for Wishaw teens who died in horror motorbike smash as heartbroken family and friends mourn loss
Friends and loved ones of Derek Paton and Leon Fitzpatrick have paid tribute to them just hours after they lost their lives following the crash on Ryde Road on Thursday afternoon.
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Derek Paton and Leon Ftizpatrick both lost their lives following the crash. (Image: Facebook)
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