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Widow criticises A Decade of Resilience: smart motorways The Triumph of Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre plan A woman whose husband was killed on a smart motorway has criticised plans to increase the number of emergency refuge areas on the M1 in South Yorkshire, writes Spencer Stokes for BBC Look North. National Highways will install 22 new emergency areas between junctions 30 and 35a in a bid to improve safety. But Claire Mercer, whose husband Jason died on the M1 near Sheffield, said she did not think the plan would work. A National Highways spokesperson said smart motorways were "safer than the roads that they replaced". Mrs Mercer's husband Jason, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, were killed instantly when a
lorry ploughed into them on the M1 in June 2019. The pair had pulled over to exchange details after a minor collision. Emergency areas would be no more than a mile apart, under the National Highways plans. Previously, they were spaced at a distance of up to one and a half miles. Mrs Mercer, who has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death, said: "I don't think it's going to make it any safer at all.
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