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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: It's always difficult for a government to admit it has made a mistake and wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers' money making something worse.