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Rollout of smart motorway safety tech brought forward

By Press Association 2021 A measure aimed at boosting smart motorway safety will be completed ahead of schedule, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced (Martin Rickett/PA) A measure aimed at boosting smart motorway safety will be completed ahead of schedule, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced. The Cabinet minister told MPs that radar technology to detect drivers who break down in live lanes will be rolled out across the entire network by the end of next year. A deadline of March 2023 was included in an action plan launched by Mr Shapps in March 2020. Highways England figures show the Stopped Vehicle Detection (SVD) upgrade has so far only been installed on three sections, totalling 37 miles out of the 500-mile smart motorway network.

Widow leads fight over smart motorways after landmark crash inquest

Widow leads fight over smart motorways after landmark crash inquest Chiara Giordano © Provided by The Independent The widow of a motorist who died on a smart motorway is leading the fight to have them banned after a coroner concluded they pose “an ongoing risk of future deaths”. Claire Mercer has spent the last year and a half campaigning against smart motorways - where the hard shoulder is converted to an active lane - after her husband Jason died on a stretch of the M1 along with delivery driver Alexandru Murgeanu in June 2019. And she found fresh resolve this week after Sheffield coroner David Urpeth acknowledged the lack of a hard shoulder contributed to their deaths.

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