Cardboard coffin protest in London to demand scrapping of smart motorways
Protesters carried 38 cardboard coffins across London's Westminster Bridge to Parliament Square then on to Horseferry Road
She said the 38 coffins represented the official number of those killed on smart motorways between 2014 and 2019.About 50 demonstrators marched from the London Eye to Horseferry Road to demand a ban on all-lane running motorways, which can convert the hard shoulder into a live traffic lane. "[The government] keep doing review after review after review - in the meantime, people are still dying," she said.Image caption,
National Highways, the government-owned company responsible for England's motorways and major A roads, said the chance of death on smart motorways was less than on any other major road.
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