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Two thirds of Britons think smart motorways are less safe than normal ones with hard shoulders and 57 per cent of people are opposed to their use entirely, a YouGov poll has revealed.  The latest findings come just days after Dr Alan Billings, Police Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire, wrote to the Government saying the abolition of the hard shoulder should be 'abandoned' before more people die, branding them 'inherently unsafe'.  The poll found 64 per cent of Brits agree with Dr Billings's claims that smart motorways are not as safe, while only seven per cent believed they were safer....

CAN THERE ever have been a more inappropriate description? In reality, they are little more than death traps and a cheap way of being seen to provide more carriageway space on some of the busiest and most crowded and choked roads in the country.

The widow of a motorist who died on a smart motorway has called for police to investigate Highways England after a coroner said her husband could have survived a crash on the M1 if there was a hard shoulder.  Claire Mercer, whose 44-year-old husband Jason died on the M1 along with delivery driver Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, said she hoped the inquest would be a catalyst for an investigation into possible corporate manslaughter charges. Mrs Mercer, from Rotherham, said: 'After more than a year and a half of campaigning I today feel that somebody has listened and finally taken steps to address th...