....any risk would appear to be higher (and also there must be "clear and present" danger, given the record of vehicles being ploughed into on the hard-shoulder).
OTOH, AIUI (other acronyms are available), there are refuges added every 1/2 mile (or is it 1/2 kilometre) or so and as these now are not part of the hard-shoulder (and therefore in-set), they are possibly a better/safer place to be in the case of an emergency.
I think empirical evidence shows there is little or no higher accident rate on the existing "smart motorway" network, though this may be offset by a reduction of accidents arising from improved traffic-flow, and of course may change with further roll-out and/or increase in traffic to absorb the new capacity.
Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Tue 29 Mar 16 at 12:35
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