…riding his motorbike into Land Rover stranded in M4 inside lane
“It follows official figures published in September last year showing that death rates on smart motorways are up to a third higher than on those with a hard shoulder.
The disclosure blew a hole in repeated claims by ministers and highways bosses that smart motorways are ‘as safe as, or safer than’ their conventional counterparts”
“a police collision investigator told an inquest into Mr Torok’s death at Reading Town Hall last week that the fatal crash would not have taken place if there had been a ‘traditional hard shoulder’ on the M4.”
“A Land Rover ‘suffered an unexpected and inexplicable mechanical defect rendering it not possible for it to proceed to a refuge’, but instead had to come to a stop in the inner lane just short of the exit slip road at Junction 6”
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