Crash that killed Derek Jacobs and Charles Scripps ‘would not have occurred’ if there had been hard shoulder, coroner finds

A crash on a smart motorway that killed two pensioners would not have happened if there had been a hard shoulder, a coroner has said.

The inquest finding led to renewed calls from campaigners for smart motorways to be halted and hard shoulders reintroduced.

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