Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailA harrowing 999 call captured the moment a lorry ploughed into the back of a family's broken down van on a motorway with no hard shoulder. Mr Montgomery told how he pulled his daughter, Rose, aged five, into the front seat "where she was throwing up blood". It didn't have a hard shoulder because it was being converted into a smart motorway, forcing the family to stop and sit in their Volkswagen van in the slow lane. (Image: Channel 4)Capacity is increased on smart motorways by temporarily or permanently opening the hard shoulder to traffic. Jim O’Sullivan, Highways England's Chief Executive, said: "We opened our first smart motorway in 1995 and we are now operating over 236 miles of them.

Source: Daily Mirror January 20, 2018 12:11 UTC