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WHEN a lorry ploughed into the back of his grandad's car on the M6, eight-year-old Dev Naran was killed instantly.The bright schoolboy was travelling
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 aft...
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...
Jason Mercer and Alexandru Murgeanu died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles after they stopped on a stretch of the M1 in 2019.
Smart motorways 'present an ongoing risk of future deaths', a coroner has concluded, following an inquest into the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 with no hard shoulder. Sheffield coroner David Urpeth said the primary cause of death of Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, on the M1 in South Yorkshire in June 2019 was the careless driving of lorry driver Prezemyslaw Szuba. Szuba, 40, ploughed into their vehicles as they stood stationary in lane one following a minor shunt. But, recording a conclusion of unlawful killing, Mr Urpeth said: 'I find, as a finding of fact, it is cl...