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Calls for smart motorways to be banned after hundreds of failings discovered

Source: PA Archive

Technology designed to keep drivers safe on smart motorways frequently stops working, an investigation has found.

There have been hundreds of incidents when safety equipment was out of action in recent years, latest figures show.

AA president Edmund King said these failures are “every driver’s worst nightmare” as he called for hard shoulders to be reinstated on all smart

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