Around 50 demonstrators marched to Parliament Square earlier today (Monday) to demand a ban on so-called 'all-lane running' (ALR) motorways, which can convert the hard shoulder into a live traffic lane as road conditions demand.
There have been mounting concerns about the idea, following several fatal accidents involving stationary vehicles being hit from behind.
The protest action was led by Claire Mercer, whose husband Jason Mercer died on a stretch of the M1 without a hard shoulder. Mr Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died near Sheffield when a lorry crashed into their vehicles, which had stopped on the motorway after a “minor shunt” in June 2019.
Mrs Mercer told the PA news agency the protest aimed to “force home the message that we’re just being ignored by the government”.
She said: “They keep doing review after review after review. In the meantime, people are still dying. There’s a really strong feeling against these. We need to embarrass...