Ministers urged to halt the rollout of 'deadly' smart motorways for five years
called for ministers to find other ways to keep traffic moving until data showed it was safe to remove the breakdown lane from swathes of the network.to demand hard shoulders be permanently reinstated.
Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died near Sheffield when a lorry crashed into their vehicles in June 2019. Mr Mercer’s widow, Claire said the protest was to “force home the message we’re just being ignored by the Government”. added: “The Government must finally listen to what it’s being told by countless victims’ families or we face more tragedy on our roads.”
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