Take a road trip with Suzi and Ortis on one of our motorways

TV presenters Suzi Perry and Ortis Deley take you on a road trip along a smart motorway, explaining the system and key information that all drivers need to know.

[@TechBlokeUK]

I've seen many many emergency vehicles, with blue lights on, stuck in the traffic-jams caused as soon as there is an accident on a 'smart' motorway. Previously, they would have been able to use the hard shoulder, but now they have no way to get to the victims. Horrific. At the very least, move the barriers back and leave a verge or 'soft-shoulder' as a place of safety in case of breakdown - not good, but better than nothing.

[@DavidLamb123]

I would like to have seen how to deal with a stopped car in an active lane. Sitting there hands shaking dialling 999 and awaiting certain death when the large truch hits me from behind. And what about animals.

[@nathanlucas6465]

No mention of any of the deaths that have been directly attributed to the lack of a hard shoulder then?

[@davidholmes9880]

Unbelievably misleading as an ex Traffic Officer I know how dangerous the hard shoulder can be normally so to taking it away makes it a death zone. I left the job because I was nearly killed whilst working in the hard shoulder and some of my colleagues have not been so lucky,had it now been now I wouldn’t be typing this message. Ask any Traffic Officer off the record and I can guarantee they will agree that safe motorways are the worst decision ever made.How many people have to die before they are scrapped which I doubt will happen? 🤬

[@EPCRh]

A cheap way to increase traffic capacity.. Full stop. Time will tell what price is paid in human life for this decision made by administrators in offices remote from reality.

[@patrickwood4181]

So much more dangerous than the old hard shoulder setup. You should be able to pull onto the hard shoulder immediately when you have a problem, not struggle on to a dedicated area. Forcing cars to stop in live lanes is the reality, in the 20 seconds it takes to detect a stopped car the cars behind have smashed into the back of it and we've got a pile up. Ironically, when a major incident happens, the police, fire service and ambulance can't get through the traffic that is blocking every lane. If only there was an emergency lane that's kept clear for safe passage of emergency vehicles! I've travelled down 'smart' motorways at 3am, hardly another car in sight, still 40/50mph speed limits in place - I can't really see what's 'smart' about that. Waste of time and money, more dangerous and the system isn't working, bring back the hard shoulder.

[@suebeilby8957]

Absolutely agree. They are so dangerous now.

[@petrolpoodle6617]

A very interesting point!! This actually inspired me to see if I could find any data to see what the smart motorway impact has been, to see if overall they're better or worse. Personally, I'm very conflicted but thought if you're as sad as me, you might find the data interesting! A few results down Google I found the official Department For Transport's Smart Motorway document with its statistics. It's a very interesting mixed bag! Under the Conclusion section: 1.33 The high-level statistics suggest that fatal casualty rates on the ALR network as it stands are lower, while injury rates are slightly higher. The risk modelling suggests that when converting conventional motorways to ALR, many risks decrease, while some increase. For example, the risks of a vehicle being driven too fast, and of a vehicle drifting off the carriageway, reduce whilst the risks of unsafe lane changing and of a vehicle stopping in a live lane increase. Looking at like-for-like studies of specific roads which have been converted to ALR: the overall casualty rate declines significantly; the fatal and serious casualty rate increases slightly, but within the statistical margin of error; and the FWI rate declines. The same studies further indicate that the motorway types differ in terms of the underlying risks. 1.34 The high level statistics show that DHS motorways, compared to conventional motorways, have a lower rate of fatal casualties and a higher rate of slight casualties, while serious casualty rates are slightly higher. Before and after collision data for DHS schemes suggested that personal injury collisions reduced. 1.35 Overall, the evidence shows that in most ways, smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, conventional motorways, but not in every way. Part B of this report sets out our Action Plan, which includes continuing to monitor the evidence as it evolves.

[@stefanf2740]

@@petrolpoodle6617 thanks for digging through that and summarising. I've struggled to make up my mind about this as well, and it's nice to see someone not just use anecdotal or emotional arguments.

[@maddiefox1273]

@@petrolpoodle6617 thanks for the data 👍🏼

[@kirstymoody8239]

Completely agree. When they introduced a smart road in Birmingham you could always see the next gantry sign with lane closures ahead. I’ve been down some new smart motorways and not seen a gantry for miles, how’s that safer if you’re not alerted to a stopped vehicle in your lane. I’m terrified I’l breakdown on a smart motorway and not be able to get both my children out safety and quickly without being struck.

[@archechme]

How can the presenter have the cheek to say it was precarious leaving her car on the hard shoulder... The hard shoulder was an emergency area covering almost every single mile of every single motorway in the entire country where you could safely stop. Now, if you break down in a live line and you can't make it to an emergency area, you are in an extremely dangerous and life threatening position. You can't fully rely on the people in the traffic control rooms and there will be a period of time where the sensors haven't picked you up yet, they haven't seen you on the cameras and you definitely cannot rely on the motorists behind you to be able to see you and get out of the way effectively.

[@jackiebray3024]

Yes my thoughts exactly! You could merge properly back on the motorway from a hard shoulder as well! And also it’s definately not safer staying in the car! I won’t drive on a motorway anymore, I leave it to my husband , our car is quite old so more chance it could break down!

[@archechme]

@@jackiebray3024 That's an important point, you can use the hard shoulder to build up speed and join the motorway again, matching the speed of traffic.

[@npr1300A8]

Apparently the average time for anyone to get to you is 17 minutes! With traffic thundering past you in darkness and torrential rain, that would feel like an hour! 😡

[@npr1300A8]

According to National Highways, 1 in 12 fatalities occur on the hard shoulder. So, by removing it do they honestly think these deaths will be prevented in future? If this is their logic, we should ALL be very concerned.

[@marygerrard7727]

Very good

[@chrisrichards2544]

So if your car comes to a sudden stop in a live lane, it takes 20 seconds for the system to detect your stopped ehicle. So that means there is enough time for ten other vehicles that are obeying the "two second rule" to smash into your rear end, because two seconds is not enough for them to react and stop in time.

[@jonnykeeb]

Fff

[@knighterrant4]

Absolute rubbish. It’s extremely unlikely (probably impossible) for a vehicle to come to a sudden and full stop that’s faster than anyone can brake. Everyone following at least 2 seconds behind (on a dry road) will have time to stop safely behind or take suitable avoiding action - as long as they’re looking where they’re going!

[@louisenewall9472]

My approach to the Smart (read cheapest way to add extra lanes) motorway is to go slowly on the inside lane, just in case. But that's where most of the lorries are. If I do grind to a halt won't have time to pick up the phone, let alone dial 999!

[@sarahjohnson83]

So so scary. Agree with all other comments. Also relies on the general public obeying the red X - which if you’ve ever driven on a motorway - you know people don’t. The deterrent is “police could issue a fine” what a waste of police resources. So dangerous. Good luck everyone.

[@johnprice8972]

All the monitoring is good, but still need a hard shoulder. How will the traffic officers get to the incident if all lanes are blocked?

[@markkeating3522]

Let's watch Suzi & Ortis stop in a live lane with no hard shoulder and see if the emergency services can get there within 5 seconds before an articulated lorry hurtles towards them at 70mph while they are trying to get out with elderly people/children I notice it reverts to animations when anything other than normal function happens!

[@johnprice8972]

in the video at 9:34. you can see a car in the lane right behind the broken down van, clearly ignoring the red Xs, which is what people do.

[@Themusiic09]

Yep

[@Andy-kd1kb]

No disrespect to Siobhan (she was clearly reading the script she was given by her bosses why didn't they want to appear in the video?), she said that one of the aims of so-called "SMART MOTORWAYS" is "To keep the motorway flowing". I'd love to see the evidence? (There isn't any. Traffic flows are increasing on parts of the motorway network meaning that you could make them 10 lanes wide (like the Americans have) and you still not improve journey times).

[@Leedslad31]

Thanks for the video, and I'm so glad you guys survived your All Lanes Running smart motorway experience - your celebration was good to see! Sadly, not everyone is as fortunate to have a trouble-free journey, and ALR puts those unfortunate souls in grave danger. No matter how much unreliable tech is added to ALR stretches, there really is no substitute for a permanent, dedicated and continuous hard shoulder, and the British public will never accept anything which compromises the safety of our loved ones. Please listen to those who pay your wages and restore our hard shoulder - our lifeline. Thank you.

[@migsteele]

One of the most foundational principles of engineering is KISS (keep it simple, stupid). This is not keeping it simple, this is adding overhead to a problem that was already solved. The attempt to remove cost when adding new lanes, has lead to longer term costs and I’m sure a whole tonne of private contracts. The hard shoulder is always a simpler, safer and ultimately cheaper solution. Without anyone needed to ‘make it safe’.

[@Mucker69]

More videos with Suzi please 👍🏻

[@mhuzzell]

To be fair, the sensor-driven variable speed limits seem like a good idea to prevent queues. Replacing the hard shoulder with a NASA ground crew monitoring team looks like it's probably outrageously expensive, as well as less safe than a traditional hard shoulder. Seems like for the same money, they could improve inter-city public transport and so just reduce traffic in the first place?

[@Hashterix]

Everyone involved in this lethal abomination of a system should be utterly ashamed of themselves. Put the hard shoulder back before more people die.

[@petrolpoodle6617]

This inspired me to see if I could find any data (rather than just looking at individual scenarios where it makes more or less sense) to see what the smart motorway impact has been, to see if overall they're better or worse. Personally, I'm very conflicted but I thought if you're as sad as me, someone reading might find the data interesting! A few results down Google I found the official Department For Transport's Smart Motorway report with its statistics. It's a very interesting mixed bag! Under the Conclusion section: 1.33 The high-level statistics suggest that fatal casualty rates on the ALR network as it stands are lower, while injury rates are slightly higher. The risk modelling suggests that when converting conventional motorways to ALR, many risks decrease, while some increase. For example, the risks of a vehicle being driven too fast, and of a vehicle drifting off the carriageway, reduce whilst the risks of unsafe lane changing and of a vehicle stopping in a live lane increase. Looking at like-for-like studies of specific roads which have been converted to ALR: the overall casualty rate declines significantly; the fatal and serious casualty rate increases slightly, but within the statistical margin of error; and the FWI rate declines. The same studies further indicate that the motorway types differ in terms of the underlying risks. 1.34 The high level statistics show that DHS motorways, compared to conventional motorways, have a lower rate of fatal casualties and a higher rate of slight casualties, while serious casualty rates are slightly higher. Before and after collision data for DHS schemes suggested that personal injury collisions reduced. 1.35 Overall, the evidence shows that in most ways, smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, conventional motorways, but not in every way. Part B of this report sets out our Action Plan, which includes continuing to monitor the evidence as it evolves. Right, I'm off to become a more fun person again!

[@BarrattG]

How were these statistics collected, accidents as % of total active motorists per period or just total? Because we sorta had a massive lockdown at stages that would massively skew these figures.

[@petrolpoodle6617]

@@BarrattG Have a look for the report it's ridiculously in-depth, it'll have info of how it was collected. I just copied and pasted the findings as they were interesting, no idea how it was collected

[@stephenpeart1]

How on earth are monitor cameras going to work in fog? This is crazy. These motorways are lethal and should be abandoned, and the hard shoulder restored immediately.

[@Themusiic09]

They will have radar that cannot be stopped by fog.

[@stephenpeart1]

Is this for children ?

[@simonyau5438]

As a driver with 40 years experience , I haven’t see the smart motorway are smart anyway , but cost so many years to build and huge money !

[@mhuzzell]

Wow, even the presenter didn't sound convinced when she was trying to imply that intermittent emergency pull-offs are a better (or even adequate) alternative to a hard shoulder.

[@dannypsimpson]

Huge traffic, lanes being shut and the hugely dangerous potential for people to ignore a X sign, - just because a car couldn't use a hard shoulder. Baffles me. Hardshoulders will come back in the future 100%.

[@Andy-kd1kb]

What a FANTASTIC video. This is REALLY going to help educate people, change attitudes and create safer roads. NOT

[@jamesalexanderbarnettdp9479]

I had a blow out on the M6 all 4 lanes active, it was horrible and I just kept driving on the alloy to get to a safe pull off, really not nice having somewhere to stop safely.

[@jeremyhoad7491]

Less chat, more information. I don’t care about “personalities”. “Smart Motorways” are not reassuring and seem more dangerous if breakdowns happen.

[@Ras6200]

Interesting that there's not a single comment in favour of these smart motorways. Faster but potentially so dangerous. From personal experience, the hard shoulder has been a saviour several times in many decades.

[@knighterrant4]

Here’s a comment in favour. Instead of relying on flawed logic and a handful of reported incidents in the media, I’ve read the facts that take everything into account. This includes an independent report by Claire Murray comparing data for sections of motorway before and after conversion to Smart Motorways. ALR roads have proved to be safer. committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/25539/pdf/

[@joyreardon3420]

Restore hard shoulders they are a good safety measure as well as giving access to ambulances, police and breakdown lorries. Whose idea was it anyway...?

[@odakyuodakyu6650]

why at the start if the video do you need the two 'presenters' holding those coffee cups? its about as genuine as a scene from BBC Doctors.

[@johnprice8972]

Emergency services will tell you to get out of the car, even on the hard shoulder as risk of collision from the rear is really high. Suzi says this in the video.

[@andrewjones154]

Just this week, on the M5 between Worcester and Droitwich, the signs were busy suggesting the left lane was blocked, and this time it actually was, with the motorway assistance vehicle in attendance. Beyond the stopped vehicle position, the imprecised application of the sinage meant that the overhead signs still indicated the inside lane was closed due to the obstruction, so what do drivers turing off at the Droitwich junction do? They can see the Red X, they have seen the attended-to breakdown, they can clearly see the junction is safely clear of obstructions, but to get to the slip lane means risking being prosecuted for using a lane with a Red X.

[@wjp555]

National Highways can put out all the pro "smart" motorway videos they want but we all know they aren't as safe as motorways with hard shoulders. Instead of finding cheap ways to try and expand motorway capacity we need to be reducing the amount of traffic.

[@skidy2]

Good video but what do you when poeple don't read the signs or system is not working fully

[@nathanlucas6465]

So that's all day every day then

[@Koldsmith]

"Smart" motorways are utter rubbish, the "Old Fashioned" hard shoulder has always been a safe place of refuge should your car breakdown unexpectedly, they were also a handy lane that was largely empty to be used by the emergency services to get to the scene of an accident quickly. 20 seconds assumes the absolute best-case scenario, it also assumes that people will obey the posted signs which as myself and others have experienced, clearly does not happen. There's something viscerally terrifying about slowing down to 40mph on a motorway and trying to move over to the left while every other vehicle is thundering past you at 70mph. Also, as others have stated, there's been times when you can be on a quiet stretch of motorway on a Sunday evening and the signage will tell you to slow down... for what?

[@jerrywinder7052]

"Smart" motorways are quite simply lethal. It's actually difficult to believe that anybody even conceived of this idea, let alone signed off on it and spent taxpayers money on it. Breakdown or a puncture and you have nowhere to go, good luck with that. 30 seconds is too long to wait for a lane to be closed, let alone for many drivers to even understand that the sign they're seeing is a lane closure sign. But hey, I'll feel a lot happier going to my grave knowing that the poor sod who hit me was fined for driving in a closed lane! The moron who came up with this wants shooting.

[@PortsladeBySea]

When I first heard about smart motorways I thought it was a dangerous and unworkable system. Having now driven on these roads I realise that I was correct. I appreciate that the computer modelling suggested they would work, but they don’t 😢

[@npr1300A8]

Never is it about saving lives. Money is always behind schemes like this and then have useful idiots to promote it.

[@RayButten]

Ever since the removal of 'Hard shoulders' on any motorway it has always been a 'What group of idiots came up with that idea', were they the same group that came up with the idea of putting a £6,000,000 mound of earth as a viewing platform (now removed thank goodness), at Marble Arch in London. Unfortunately these people walk among us. As dangerous as a hard could be it was the still safest way of getting a problem vehicle out of immediate harms way and everyone knew that. This idea of a hard shoulder now being a live lane is madness, effing madness.

[@npr1300A8]

My Uncle was a Civil engineer who was involved with the construction of motorway bridges, A38 Aston Expressway and many bridge building abroad and I can tell you that he is disgusted and saddened to see the reversing of many aspects of safety knowledge of civil engineering learnt over those years. We have definitely gone backwards in this country.

[@johnprice8972]

Super dangerous. Nowhere to go but stop in a live lane, and even if no one drives into the back of you, getting out of the car, and getting to safety is like playing Frogger. And the emergency vehicles will have a harder time getting to you.

[@user-ih2of9ud4u]

I don't know who dreamt up 'smart' motorways but they should be sentenced to spend a day in a broken-down car in a so-called safe area. It's terrifying. If you can get over the crash barrier you are then penned in by more heavy duty mesh, so there is no retreat. In my case, the phone on the M4 was answered reasonably quickly and I'm sure the guy at the desk did his job but I couldn't hear a word because of the noise. Thinking back, there may have been a volume control but in the circumstances it was difficult to think sensibly. It was comforting that they were 'keeping an eye' on me - I caught that much - but I had to make my own decision about rejoining the traffic. Thank heavens it wasn't late at night or raining, as there is no room to accelerate. I now understand that a lane can be made safe for pulling out by lighting a red cross overhead but I simply couldn't hear any instructions. I'm now trying to update my knowledge, as I learnt to drive a long time ago - what I would really like to see is a picture of the inside of one of those telephones to see what I missed. I've been asked by the Highways Agency for feedback but the link I've been given is not accessible. Incidentally, this video is misleading as it features two active healthy youngish people.

[@davon8561]

On hard shoulder you should lift bonnet. It’s an immediate visual sign that you have stopped

[@anncull1940]

Turning off the motorway and indicating right?

[@uplink-on-yt]

I just made a note to call 999 if I suddenly stop in a live lane. It was one of my anxiety factors. The next one will be to tell them where exactly I stopped so they can come get me.

[@jimmyp7928]

Terrible, terrible idea. Poor planning and execution; all of those whom advocate this system are wrong. A prime example of bureacratic incompetence and lunacy that defines modern life!

[@edwardalexander9486]

Happy happy joy joy. 6:23 - ...and how is that more dangerous than no hard shoulder?

[@susanseely3527]

M60 Junction 13 to 23 is a particularly dangerous stretch of “smart” motorway. People have been dying on these motorways because there are no hard shoulders when they have broken down. Please reverse the process and save lives! If you break down put your hazard lights on ring 999 and PRAY because it will take a long time for emergency services to get to you. I could have done without the jokey presentation for something so serious.

[@npr1300A8]

I haven't watched it all. 2 mins in and I was feeling my BP rising. This is the same as all the 'mandatory' training now given in the NHS. Majority of it absolute tosh.

[@hooksforestchin]

M60 J13 to 23 isn't a smart motorway...

[@carlatysoe7716]

Well I for one will never drive on a motorway, this system scares the 💩💩💩 out of me……

[@sealscrotum66]

Get this scrapped. Higher taxes than ever yet we as the public are being skimmed from more now than in our entire history.

[@IanGettings]

The computer images show a very non busy road whilst the commentary talks about “busy” times. Every moment of this sets my own warning signals off!!

[@trishfranks]

Didn’t indicate when pulling out into the road 🤨

[@JamieHuntLCFC]

Hmm this sounds about as good as the new cycling laws🤔 Please GET RID OF THE SMART MOTORWAYS bring back the hard shoulder and lets start saving lifes!!!

[@sivelo5021]

🤔 Cycling laws? Presume you are referring to the Highway Code. As for new guidelines, apart from a couple, most of it isn’t new. Suggest you have a good read up 👍🏻

[@sivelo5021]

Do agree with your point on smart motorways 👍🏻

[@affanali6558]

So at 2am in the morning empty roads and the smart motorway decides to set speed limits ?? Load of tosh just leave things alone and spend my hard earned money on fixing the damn roads

[@nathanlucas6465]

I wonder if the software has detected that most vehicles are doing less than 60 (more trucks than anything else overnight) and think its a problem happening because no one is doing 70 (or more)

[@Wild-Storm]

Should implement something for the ignorant lane hoggers!

[@nowtrytv]

So where is this motorway service?! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pl63ZnuIr81-fK8

[@fuckyoufuckingweb]

🤣 any other video people fighting in the comments. Anytime somebody bring up "Smart" motorway and people of all races, religions, genders agree with each other for the first time. There is nothing that suck more then driving on them.

[@valduncan370]

Thank goodness I live in an area where you don’t have to use Smart Motorway. When going south on M6 I get really stressed out on these so called smart motorway. I think they are death traps. They are very very unsafe and have no barrier you can climb over and so safe havens are 1.6 miles apart. How can anyone with a brain be involved in there construction. Nothing to be proud of. Bring back Hard Shoulder before more families are wiped out.

[@boblancaster2002]

They haven’t mentioned the best thing to do if your car goes dead and you are stopped in a live lane and a 40 ton lorry is bearing down on you. Head between the legs and PRAY!

[@estellepringle7340]

Absolutely patronising to think that we will fall for such propaganda as believing that waiting STATIONARY for 20 seconds in full traffic is safer than pulling in immediately to a hard shoulder, The point is that pulling to a hard shoulder can be done in LESS than 20 seconds …..and then you can phone from the relative safety of hard shoulder, or choose to exit responsibly etc, first…..rather than phoning from your car in the active smart lane, while you rely on traffic to see you and react…… Yes I’m sure hard shoulders are not perfect either, but don’t pretend that these smart motorways are better…. Cream teas will not help convince me either. This is again, patronising and suggests you are reaching for emotional persuasive tactics because the bare facts won’t do it … We can all agree that the debate about smart motorways is a matter of life and death, unlike the humorous chit chat about pronunciation of scones. If you want to change my mind at least please have the decency to fill your footage with more statistics and more relevant interviews ….

[@MrRobravens]

A road where you have to call 999 if you break down shouldn't exist. Full stop. Anyone who thinks otherwise is thick in the head

[@rgosain]

Taxpayers money spent on something that could have been made as factual documentary.

[@dougalmcguire7202]

Yes I want hard shoulders back, but more importantly it needs stating once and for all, they're pronounced scone!

[@kerrjo1601]

No permenent hard shoulder is just plain wrong WRONG!!!!!!

[@tomjreid]

At 6.35, driving in the second lane with nothing inside of their car. Really awful example and contrary to the Highway Code and law.

[@npr1300A8]

We're all treated like children now! The first comment from this traffic officer about "More recently, we've been converting the hard shoulder to keep the motorways flowing" is absolutely nonsense! The whole reason for doing this is to save money!! When the 4 lanes are clogged up with traffic in a few years' time, what are they going to do, build another lane?? The whole thing is a complete mess. A slick video by TV personalities will do NOTHING to bring comfort to those families who have lost loved ones due to this insane decision. 😡

[@jamtea573]

Ah, good old cringe videos, it's like 2012 all over again.

[@colinmelhuish1254]

What a load of .........

[@davidharrington5274]

Utterly disgusting. Let's see how chirpy the music is and how much banter there is when they break down in lane 1 or find themselves on a collision course with someone else who has. Or when they get ticketed after getting flashed because the speed signs are faulty or set incorrectly. These death trap schemes are riddled with inadequate and failing technology and chaotic, overwhelmed control centres.

[@hooksforestchin]

literally impossible to get a speeding ticket 'because the signs are faulty or set incorrectly', not least as it takes an image of what the signals are set to as you go under them.

[@johnellis115]

Did any of thes jokers ever work the motorwayeven when there was a hard shoulder

[@memory199726]

I seen drivers intentionally driving on X lanes to avoid queues what are you guys talking about seriously.. national highways people need to wake up, you have put two people that really seem to have no idea when it comes to "professional driving" and "safety discussions". How did this idea actually went through and got implemented is beyond me.

[@andrewjones154]

I'm not impressed by this video. It overlooks some very serious shortcomings. I've done a lot of driving on motorways old and new, in trucks and cars. All lane running creates a terrifying situation for anyone whose car doesn't conveniently breakdown approaching a Refuge Area, where, on early ALR motorways they may be 2.5 km apart (Highways England GD04), how often will that be? I've twice come across vans that had stopped only a minute or two before, and the monitoring systems hadn't woken up to their desperate situation, and desperate it is with many trucks still being driven close together as if they were on a motorway with a hard shouder for stopped vehicles to move over on to. Driver retraining is needed, as not enough trucks have RADAR collision avoidance, and by the way the systems that I've experienced to date have some potentially nasty side effects, when the truck latches onto an overhead bridge structure in the absence of traffic ahead and then slams the brakes on hard - bad news for anyone following closely who doesn't have a similar system. I've read that on the not-so-smart motorways it can take 17 minutes before the Active lane gets closed. I've seen the police moan on TV about how people move back into the closed lane after passing the obstruction, but I've been past so many obstructions where the All Clear wasn't given that I'd still be orbiting the M25 in lane 2 now, if I followed the advice. Clearly the operations crew need training too. I've seen the slip road from Aston to the A38M with a red X on the inside lane of the A38M, so does that stop all joining traffic from proceeding to join? Is it OK to cross? The police car overtaking me on the inside to get to the stranded motorist in that lane one knew what was pressing: getting to the family in danger, stuck without a hard shoulder. Other times, I've seen the M6 northbound traffic needlessly queue to squeeze into the outside lane, due to a stuck control system. A similar thing happened in the M3/M27 area a couple of weeks ago, causing people to be an hour late to work. Enough of this madness, before too many more lives are lost.

[@nickcurry7986]

Like I care where they’re going for afternoon tea…This jokey banter is bollocks….Respectful enough??????????

[@racheltaylor6578]

Smart motorways are dangerous.

[@edwardalexander9486]

"Suzi" and "Ortis" should be ashamed of themselves by fronting this puff piece. Kinda sickening listening to them with whistling soundtrack, as if it's all brilliant.

[@RBH614]

A poor film!

[@MatthewStanford51]

It's a shame they chose an old fashioned ICE car