There were 397 incidents when the motorway network lost power, which makes it difficult to detect when a car breaks down and can trap drivers in a live lane, from June 2022 to February 2024.
The technology behind England 's smart motorways network stopped working on a regular basis leaving drivers 'at risk', it has emerged.
Eight-year-old Dev Naran was killed on the M6 in Birmingham in 2018 after his family's car became stranded on a hard shoulder being used as a live lane. Nargis Begum, 62, died after her broken down car was hit on the M1 in South Yorkshire in 2018 National Highways said the radar detects 89 per cent of breakdowns - which means one in 10 are not spotted - and that smart motorways are the safest roads in Britain.
The red car, being driven by Mr Scripps's wife Jean, was shown on dashcam footage flipping over in the carriageway and ending up on its side before it was hit by a coach. READ MORE: Pensioners would not have been killed in smart motorway crash if there had been a hard shoulder, coroner says Advertisement Jason's widow Claire Mercer told Good Morning Britain that the new data is 'terrifying'.
The study by National Highways, the quango responsible for major roads, also showed that the rate of 'killed and serious injury' incidents during breakdowns on smart motorways with no permanent hard shoulder has increased by 10 per cent. In April 2023 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced he was halting new smart motorways from being built.
Mrs Begum was being driven by husband Mohammed Bashir, 67. They left their Nissan Qashqai to wait for help but another car hit the vehicle, sending it into her.
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