The more you find out, the more you discover that people have been dying on these things for years and years.”
By our reporter
20 February 2020
Claire Mercer is leading a fight to end the use of “smart motorways” in the UK. Claire’s husband, Jason, was tragically killed on a smart motorway on a section of the M1, near Sheffield, on June 7, 2019.
Claire, a buyer, lived with Jason, a contracts manager, in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham.
Jason died along with Alexandru Murgeanu, after they were involved in a minor collision. They stopped to exchange the legally required insurance details but had no access to a hard shoulder where they could do this safely. They were both hit by an oncoming lorry.
Full article here >https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/20/cla2-f20.html
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