Car involved in crash near Chesterfield had broken down on M1 smart motorway, police say
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Shortly before 4.45pm on Friday, emergency services received reports of a crash on the northbound carriageway of the motorway between junctions 30, for Balborough, and 31, for Aston.
This section is a smart motorway and does not have a hard shoulder.
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Hide AdThe road was closed in both directions as Yorkshire Air Ambulance landed, with police and firefighters also at the scene.
A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police said officers had been called at 4.43pm to reports of a collision involving a car and a lorry.
They said one man had been airlifted to hospital with injuries which were not believed to be life-threatening.
The Star asked the police spokesperson if the crash may have been as a result of the smart motorway.
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Hide AdThey responded: “We can say that the car had broken down in the first lane of the motorway.
“We wouldn’t comment any further at the moment.”
As reported by our sister title The Star earlier this week, South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has called again for a rethink over smart motorways before any more lives are lost.
Dr Alan Billings spoke out after a coroner asked the Crown Prosecution Service to consider whether corporate manslaughter charges should be brought against Highways England.
Senior coroner Nicola Munday raised concerns over how cameras are monitored after hearing how Sheffield grandmother Nargis Begum had exited a broken-down car on the M1 near Woodall services and been killed when another vehicle crashed into the stationary car.