Two killed on M1 smart motorway 'would've survived with hard shoulder' | UK News
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.
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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