A Yorkshire widow whose husband was killed on a so-called smart motorway has warned she receives 20 messages a week from people who have experienced near misses or actively avoid the roads as she feared it was just a matter of time before someone else loses their life.
Saturday, 6th March 2021, 10:30 pm
Claire Mercer’s husband Jason was killed along with another man, Alexandru Murgeanu, on the M1 close to the Meadowhall shopping centre, in Sheffield in June 2019.
The stretch of road has no hard shoulder, which is now used as an active lane as part of the conversion into a smart motorway.
And at an inquest in January, Sheffield coroner David Urpeth said the lack of a hard shoulder had contributed to the tragedy.
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