– These deaths were caused by drivers.
How can that be the case when multiple judges and coroners have ruled that the lack of hard shoulder contributed to the deaths, how can that be the case when Highways England are being investigated by police for corporate manslaughter?
How can a government minster just ignore (omit?) Judges and coroners rulings and police investigations? just because it doesn’t fit the defence plan for a private limited company?
And what about the deaths that haven’t reached inquest stage? how is someone that died avoiding a stopped vehicle in lane 2, to blame?
This victim blaming is the last defence of the desperate, factually incorrect and down right low.
– Re-instating the hard shoulder will kill 25 people a year!
How in gods name do Highways England PLC come up with that figure? I sincerely hope they have saved the working out to show how they got to that one.
I think more important than the downright disingenuous given above, is why is a GOVENMENT minister defending, tooth and nail, A PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY?
and branding campaigners “noisy” and “dangerous” for highlighting the truth?
Its Nick Harris job to defend the company he chairs, not GOVENMENT ministers.