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Fourteen planned smart motorways - including 11 that are already paused and three earmarked for construction - will be removed from Government road building plans.

Sally Jacobs, 86, spoke passionately on Good Morning Britain about the need for hard shoulders on UK motorways after losing her husband Derek to a horror crash in 2019 which left another man dead.

The i reported last week that the government has decided to shelve the smart motorways programme for the foreseeable future due to cost and safety

One Friday lunchtime, in March 2019, on a stretch of the M1 just outside Sheffield, Derek, 83, was killed in a horrific crash.

ROSS CLARK: Its always difficult for a government to admit it has made a mistake and wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money making something worse.

Two pensioners killed in a crash on the M1 smart motorway may not have died if there had been a hard shoulder, a coroner has said.

Ministers had already paused the construction of new smart motorways, which convert the hard shoulder into another active traffic lane and use variable speed limits, in January last year.

A horror crash on a smart motorway that left two people dead in a three-vehicle collision would have been avoided had there been a hard shoulder, a coroner has said.

It is obvious that there is a very simple solution to breakdowns on a motorway: to have a hard shoulder, or at least some space

The controversial routes have been blamed for a number of deaths since they were first introduced