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Smart motorways

https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/130990/smart-motorways-to-be-reviewed-as-transport-secretary-admits-%E2%80%98people-are-dying%E2%80%99-on-the-new-roads
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/smart-motorways/
https://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/smart-motorways
BBC How smart are Highways England's smart motorways? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48783615
'Dangerous' smart motorway should be scrapped after another serious crash, police boss says 16 February 2021 https://amp.lbc.co.uk/news/dangerous-smart-motorway-scrapped-serious-crash-police-boss/

https://smartmotorwayskill.co.uk/about-us/

All lane running schemes

All lane running schemes permanently remove the hard shoulder and convert it into a running lane.

On these types of motorway, lane one (formerly the hard shoulder) is only closed to traffic in the event of an incident.

Controlled motorway

Controlled motorways have three or more lanes with variable speed limits, but retains a hard shoulder. The hard shoulder should only be used in a genuine emergency

Dynamic hard shoulder running schemes

Dynamic hard shoulder running involves opening the hard shoulder as a running lane to traffic at busy periods to ease congestion.

Deaths

Dev Naran
M6
May 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-50188195


Derek Jacobs, M1

unnamed woman, M1

Jason Mercer + Alexandru Murgeanu, M1 near Sheffield
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-48580547
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-49567968
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50169527
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415399/Plans-roll-smart-motorways-dealt-blow-four-people-die-M1-10-months.html https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/sister-mansfield-man-killed-m1-3278846
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/21/smart-motorways-could-reviewed-courts-widow-brings-judicial/
BBC News 38 killed on smart motorways in last five years - 26 January 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51236375
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/27/highways-englands-smart-motorways-policy-killed-drivers-exminister
Smart motorway death? https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mum-four-died-car-m60-19741943.amp?