By Robert Stevens
19 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.
The government converted the hard shoulder into a live traffic lane from swathes of the motorway network as part of its smart motorways rollout.
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