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The widow of a motorist who died on a smart motorway has called for police to investigate Highways England after a coroner said her husband could have survived a crash on the M1 if there was a hard shoulder.
Claire Mercer, whose 44-year-old husband Jason died on the M1 along with delivery driver Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, said she hoped the inquest would be a catalyst for an investigation into possible corporate manslaughter charges.
Mrs Mercer, from Rotherham, said: After more than a year and a half of campaigning I today feel that somebody has listened and finally taken steps to address the use of these death trap roads.
Jason Mercer and Alexandru Murgeanu died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield in June 2019. Mercer and Murgeanu had