The widow of a man who was killed on a smart motorway is campaigning for the release of unpublished road evaluation reports.

The government has been urged to reinstate hard shoulders on Britain’s smart motorways after being accused of wasting money on the now cancelled projects. All-lane-running (ALR) smart motorways have ...

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 ...

A serious collision on the M1 has sparked huge delays for drivers traveling on the bank holiday weekend. The southbound carriageway between J13 (near Bedford) and J12 (Flitwick) is closed due to a ...

The Government's rollout of new smart motorway schemes will be paused over safety concerns. The Department for Transport said it will gather five years of safety data before creating further smart ...

A third of motorists are feeling a lot less secure on any type of smart motorway compared to their sentiments three years ago ...

A £390 million programme to add more than 150 additional emergency stopping areas to smart motorways in England has been completed, National Highways said. Construction work began in June 2023 after ...

On Monday, Sheffield coroner David Urpeth issued a groundbreaking inquest ruling in finding that two men, Jason Mercer and Alexandru Murgeanu, had been “unlawfully killed”. Jason, aged 44, and ...

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.

A huge stretch of one of the UK's busiest motorways was closed in both directions following a serious crash. Footage from motorway cameras on the M1 between J20 (#Lutterworth) and J21 (M69, Leicester) ...