Highway chiefs were warned about “life threatening” risks on a smart motorway more than four years before the deaths of eight motorists.
Police and fire services raised fears about converting a 35-mile stretch of the M1 in 2013, a road safety forum document reveals.
It concluded the section did not have proper surveillance technology to quickly spot stranded vehicles. But Highways England went ahead with the scheme between junctions 28 and 35a, which was fully opened in 2017.
Since then eight people have died in nearly 200 accidents on the stretch, Department of Transport figures show. Now widow Claire Mercer, 45, is seeking a judicial review over smart M-ways despite transport secretary Grant Schapps’ vow that no more would open without
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