Breakdown specialists across the UK have been offered special training for recovering cars on ‘smart’ motorways. A new partnership between Highways England and the Network Training Partnership has ...

A year after the U.K. government halted the expansion of so-called "smart motorways," pressure is growing to reintroduce emergency hard shoulders on nearly 200 miles of national highways. A new BBC ...

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Drivers are four times more likely to break down on a smart motorway, a new Freedom of Information request has revealed. There were 110,212 breakdowns reported on regular motorways with a hard ...

The widow of a man who was killed on a smart motorway is campaigning for the release of unpublished road evaluation reports. Jason Mercer, 44, was killed on the M1 near junction 34, Sheffield, where ...

The BBC’s documentary flagship Panorama, “Britain’s Killer Motorways?” revealed that 38 people have been killed on “smart motorways” in the last five years. This is the case although smart motorways ...

Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is urging motorists to ensure they check batteries, tyres and fuel levels before driving on the motorway. Regular checks of tyres, battery ...

In one of his essays, George Orwell pilloried the use of “political language” – consisting “largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”, said Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express.

Claire Mercer is campaigning for the release of post project evaluation reports The widow of a man who was killed on a smart motorway is campaigning for the release of unpublished road evaluation ...